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A.4 Guidelines That Pertain Only to LOCATION

A.4.1 - The phrase "of <place-name>" following an organization name may or may not be part of the organization name proper. The annotation in the answer key will follow these guidelines: (1) If there is a corporate designator, it marks the end of the organization name; (2) if there is no corporate designator, the "of <place-name>" is part of the organization name.
A.4.2 - Compound expressions in which place names are separated by a comma are to be tagged as separate instances of LOCATION.
A.4.3 - Miscellaneous location-related strings that are not to be tagged as LOCATION include street addresses, street names, adjectival forms of location names.

A.4.1 The phrase "of <place-name>" following an organization name may or may not be part of the organization name proper. The annotation in the answer key will follow these guidelines: (1) If there is a corporate designator, it marks the end of the organization name; (2) if there is no corporate designator, the "of <place-name>" is part of the organization name.

"Hyundai of Korea, Inc."

<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Hyundai of Korea, Inc.</ENAMEX>

"Hyundai, Inc. of Korea"

<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Hyundai, Inc.</ENAMEX> of <ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">Korea</ENAMEX>

"McDonald's of Japan"

<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">McDonald's of Japan</ENAMEX>

"University of California in Los Angeles"

<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">University of California</ENAMEX> in <ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">Los Angeles</ENAMEX>

[where the first tagged string functions as organization rather than facility (see A.2, above, re facilities) -- note also that the locative phrase "in Los Angeles" is not included inside the organization tag]

A.4.2 Compound expressions in which place names are separated by a comma are to be tagged as separate instances of LOCATION.

"Kaohsiung, Taiwan"

<ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">Kaohsiung</ENAMEX>, <ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">Taiwan</ENAMEX>

"Washington, D.C."

<ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">Washington</ENAMEX>, <ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION"> D.C.</ENAMEX>

A.4.3 Miscellaneous location-related strings that are not to be tagged as LOCATION include street addresses, street names, adjectival forms of location names.

"53140 Gatchell Road"

53140 Gatchell Road

[no markup]

"American exporters"

American exporters

[no markup]

Named Entity Task Definition - 02 JUN 95
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