MUC 6

Description

Message Understanding Conference (MUC) 6 was produced by Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2003T13 and ISBN 1-58563-239-2. In the 1990s, the MUC evaluations funded the development of metrics and statistical algorithms to support government evaluations of emerging information extraction technologies. Additional information from NIST can be found at http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/894.02/related_projects/muc.

This corpus contains the 318 annotated Wall Street Journal articles, the scoring software and the corresponding documentation used in the MUC6 evaluation. Both the MUC 6 Additional News Text and the MUC 6 corpus are necessary in order to replicate the evaluation. All the materials are published as received from the corpus creators, without any quality control being done at the LDC (the only difference is that the files have been uncompressed).

Features

• Membership Year(s): 2003
• Data type: text
• Data source(s): newswire
• Project(s): MUC, TIDES
• Application(s): message understanding
• Language(s): English
• Number of CDs: (ftp file)
• Nonmember price: US$100

Contact

• URL: http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/894.02/related_projects/muc
• LDC: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003T13
• Email: ldc@ldc.upenn.edu

See also: MucSixAddonCorpus, MucSevenCorpus

-- MichaelDaum - 04 Apr 2002