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From: Jonathan Fiscus <jonathan.fiscus@nist.gov>
Subject: Re: TDT3 Corpus: NE and POS tags?
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 08:24:49 -0500
Folks,
I don't have the resources Ron's looking for, so can some one help?
Jon
"Ronald K. Braun" wrote:
>
> Hi Jon--
>
> I'd like to take you up on your kind offer of assistance with a
> question. We are seeking to normalize our work with respect to
> previous projects as much as possible for baseline comparisons. We were
> under the hazy impression that the TDT3 corpus was distributed with
> named entity (NE) and part-of-speech (POS) tags (provided by BBN
> software, if I'm not mistaken), but we haven't been able to find
> instances of such in the TDT3 corpus (Multilanguage Text Version 2.0) or
> at the NIST or LDC sites other than passing references to their possible
> existence. Is there a canonical set of NE and/or POS tags that were
> used by systems interested in such, or did they all use common tagging
> software?
>
> Thanks much for any guidance!
>
> Ron
>
> Jonathan Fiscus wrote:
> >
> > Ron,
> >
> > Congratulations on your SBIR award! Attached are the instructions to
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> > Regards,
> > Jon
> >
> > "Ronald K. Braun" wrote:
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> > > Hi--
> > >
> > > My company has been awarded a contract to do some work for DARPA on
> > > first story detection under their SBIR program. So as to keep track of
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> > > Ron
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