MITRE: description of the Alembic system used for MUC-6

  • Authors:

  • John Aberdeen;John Burger;David Day;Lynette Hirschman;Patricia Robinson;Marc Vilain

  • Affiliations:

  • The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA;The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA;The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA;The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA;The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA;The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA

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

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Abstract

As with several other veteran MUC participants, MITRE's Alembic system has undergone a major transformation in the past two years. The genesis of this transformation occurred during a dinner conversation at the last MUC conference, MUC-5. At that time, several of us reluctantly admitted that our major impediment towards improved performance was reliance on then-standard linguistic models of syntax. We knew we would need an alternative to traditional linguistic grammars, even to the somewhat non-traditional categorial pseudo-parser we had in place at the time. The problem was, which alternative?