Proceedings of the Fifth Message Understanding Conference, August 1993


GE-CMU: DESCRIPTION OF THE SHOGUN SYSTEM USED FOR MUC-5

Paul S. Jacobs, George Krupka, and Lisa Rau

Michael L. Mauldin, Teruko Mitamura, and Tsuyoshi Kitani

Ira Sider and Lois Childs

ABSTRACT

This paper describes the GE-CMU TIPSTER/SHOGUN system as configured for the TIPSTER 24-month (MUC-5) benchmark, and gives details of the system's performance on the selected Japanese and English texts. The SHOGUN system is a distillation of some of the key ideas that emerged from previous benchmarks and experiments, emphasizing a simple architecture in which the focus is on detailed corpus-based knowledge. This design allowed the project to meet its goal of achieving advances in coverage and accuracy while showing consistently good performance across languages and domains.

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