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Information Extraction Task Definition

APPENDIX A. Example of Template Element Objects


These are examples of fills for the Template Element subtask that are extracted from a text in the MUC-5 corpus. The extracted information and the text itself appear below. The ARTIFACT object assumes a scenario-specific IE task that includes sports equipment such as golf clubs (and excludes such things as "golf club parts").

<ORGANIZATION-0592-1> :=
    ORG_NAME:		"BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO."
    ORG_ALIAS:		"BRIDGESTONE SPORTS"
			"BRIDGESTON SPORTS"
    ORG_DESCRIPTOR:	"JAPANESE SPORTS GOODS MAKER"
    ORG_TYPE: 		COMPANY
    ORG_NATIONALITY: 	JAPAN

<ORGANIZATION-0592-2> :=
    ORG_NAME:		"UNION PRECISION CASTING CO."
    ORG_ALIAS:		"UNION PRECISION CASTING"
    ORG_DESCRIPTOR:	"A LOCAL CONCERN"
			/"CONCERN"
    ORG_TYPE:		COMPANY
    ORG_LOCALE:	TAIWAN COUNTRY
    ORG_COUNTRY:	TAIWAN

<ORGANIZATION-0592-3> :=
    ORG_NAME:		"TAGA CO."
    ORG_DESCRIPTOR:	"A JAPANESE TRADING HOUSE"
		    	/"A COMPANY ACTIVE IN TRADING WITH TAIWAN"
    ORG_TYPE:		COMPANY
    ORG_NATIONALITY:	JAPAN

<ORGANIZATION-0592-4> :=
    ORG_NAME:		"BRIDGESTONE SPORTS TAIWAN CO."
    ORG_TYPE:		COMPANY
    ORG_DESCRIPTOR:	"A JOINT VENTURE"
    ORG_LOCALE:	KAOHSIUNG CITY
			/KAOHSIUNG PROVINCE
    ORG_COUNTRY:	TAIWAN
    COMMENT:		"'A JOINT VENTURE' is the most substantive descriptor"
			/"In the judgment of the analyst, the locale
'KAOHSIUNG' matches either 'Kao Hsiung' or 'Kao-hsiung' in the 'MUC-6
Reference Gazetteer.'  The former is listed as type PORT and the
latter is listed both as type CITY and type PROVINCE.  Since PORT is
collapsed with CITY as far as the IE task is concerned, that leaves
two alternative correct answers in the answer key."

<ARTIFACT-0592-1> :=
    ART_DESCRIPTOR:	"GOLF CLUBS"
			/"IRON AND 'METAL WOOD' CLUBS"
    COMMENT:		"ART_TYPE not specifiable without rest of
task"
			/"'UNITS' and 'LUXURY CLUBS' are not viable
alternatives to the fill for ART_DESCRIPTOR (they do not convey as much useful info)"


<doc>
<DOCNO> 0592 </DOCNO>
<DD> NOVEMBER 24, 1989, FRIDAY  </DD>
<SO> Copyright (c) 1989 Jiji Press Ltd.;  </SO>
<TXT>
   BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO. SAID FRIDAY IT HAS SET UP A JOINT VENTURE IN
TAIWAN WITH A LOCAL CONCERN AND A JAPANESE TRADING HOUSE TO PRODUCE
GOLF CLUBS TO BE SHIPPED TO JAPAN.

     THE JOINT VENTURE, BRIDGESTONE SPORTS TAIWAN CO., CAPITALIZED AT
20 MILLION NEW TAIWAN DOLLARS, WILL START PRODUCTION IN JANUARY 1990
WITH PRODUCTION OF 20,000 IRON AND "METAL WOOD" CLUBS A MONTH. THE
MONTHLY OUTPUT WILL BE LATER RAISED TO 50,000 UNITS, BRIDGESTON SPORTS
OFFICIALS SAID.

   THE NEW COMPANY, BASED IN KAOHSIUNG, SOUTHERN TAIWAN, IS OWNED 75
PCT BY BRIDGESTONE SPORTS, 15 PCT BY UNION PRECISION CASTING CO. OF
TAIWAN AND THE REMAINDER BY TAGA CO., A COMPANY ACTIVE IN TRADING WITH
TAIWAN, THE OFFICIALS SAID.

   BRIDGESTONE SPORTS HAS SO FAR BEEN ENTRUSTING PRODUCTION OF GOLF
CLUB PARTS WITH UNION PRECISION CASTING AND OTHER TAIWAN COMPANIES.

   WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TAIWAN UNIT, THE JAPANESE SPORTS
GOODS MAKER PLANS TO INCREASE PRODUCTION OF LUXURY CLUBS IN JAPAN.
</TXT>
</doc>

Information Extraction Task Definition - 14 JUN 95
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