University of Manitoba: description of the PIE system used for MUC-6

  • Authors:
  • Dekang Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

  • Venue:
  • MUC6 '95 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Message understanding
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

The PIE (Principar-driven Information Extraction) system takes a different approach to the problem of information extraction from the NUBA system that was used in MUC-5. The NUBA system did not have a parser and relies on an abductive reasoner to construct the semantic relationships between domain specific concepts mentioned in a sentence. The PIE system, on the other hand, relies heavily on a principle-based broad-coverage parser, called PRINCIPAR [2, 6, 8], that we have developed over the past three years. Most of the information extracted are directly "read-off" the parser outputs by a subtree pattern-matcher, bypassing the usual step of constructing semantic representations.