"Bridgestone profits"
<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Bridgestone</ENAMEX> profits
"the Clinton government"
the <ENAMEX TYPE="PERSON">Clinton</ENAMEX> government
"Treasury bonds and securities"
<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Treasury</ENAMEX> bonds and securities
"U.S. exporters"
<ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">U.S.</ENAMEX> exporters
"Mips Vice President John Hime" [Mips is the name of a computer company]
"Treasury Secretary"
"the U.S. Vice President"
"Arthur Anderson Consulting"
[no markup for "Arthur Anderson" alone]
"Boston Chicken Corp."
[no markup for "Boston" alone]
"U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service"
[no markup for "U.S." alone]
"Northern California"
[no markup for "California" alone]
"West Texas"
[no markup for "Texas" alone]
"Ford Taurus"
[no markup, not even for "Ford"]
"Dow Jones Industrial Average"
[no markup, not even for "Dow Jones"]
"West Texas Intermediate crude"
[no markup, not even for "West Texas" -- this example differs from those in A.1.1, in that "West Texas Intermediate" is a name and can therefore not be decomposed]
"Chrysler division"
"the Kennedy family"
"the Southwest region"
"Temple University's Graduate School of Business"
"Shearson Lehman Hutton's OTC department"
"California's Silicon Valley"
"Canada's Parliament"
"IBM" [alias for International Business Machines Corp.]
"Big Blue" [alias for International Business Machines Corp.]
"Big Board" [alias for New York Stock Exchange]
"Mr. Fix-It" [nickname for candidate for head of the CIA]
"the Big Apple" [nickname for New York City]
"Macintosh computers"
[no markup]
"Wall Street Journal"
[no markup]
"the Campbell Soups of the world"
[no markup]
Generated with CERN WebMaker
A.1.2 In addition, entity names modifying person identifiers (where person identifier= title/role and/or name) are to be tagged.
<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Mips</ENAMEX> Vice President <ENAMEX TYPE="PERSON">John Hime</ENAMEX>
<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Treasury</ENAMEX> Secretary
the <ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">U.S.</ENAMEX> Vice President
A.1.3 In some cases, multiword strings that are proper names will contain entity name substrings; such strings are not decomposable; therefore, the substrings are not to be tagged. (See A.1.2 re special cases involving prenominal modifiers of person identifiers.)
<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Arthur Anderson Consulting</ENAMEX>
<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Boston Chicken Corp.</ENAMEX>
<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</ENAMEX>
<ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">Northern California</ENAMEX>
<ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">West Texas</ENAMEX>
Ford Taurus
Dow Jones Industrial Average
West Texas Intermediate crude
A.1.4 Uncapitalized, common-noun designators such as "division" in the phrase "Chrysler division" are *not* considered part of an entity name.
<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Chrysler</ENAMEX> division
the <ENAMEX TYPE="PERSON">Kennedy</ENAMEX> family
the <ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">Southwest</ENAMEX> region
A.1.5 In a possessive construction, the possessor and possessed ENAMEX substrings should be tagged separately.
<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Temple University</ENAMEX>'s <ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Graduate School of Business</ENAMEX>
<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Shearson Lehman Hutton</ENAMEX>'s <ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">OTC</ENAMEX> department
<ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">California</ENAMEX>'s <ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">Silicon Valley</ENAMEX>
<ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">Canada</ENAMEX>'s <ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Parliament</ENAMEX>
A.1.6 Aliases for entities are to be tagged. (For further information on what constitutes an alias, see the "Information Extraction Task Definition.")
<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">IBM</ORGANIZATION>
<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Big Blue</ORGANIZATION>
<ENAMEX TYPE="ORGANIZATION">Big Board</ORGANIZATION>
Mr. <ENAMEX TYPE="PERSON">Fix-It</ENAMEX>
<ENAMEX TYPE="LOCATION">the Big Apple</ENAMEX>
A.1.7 Miscellaneous types of proper names that are *not* to be tagged as ENAMEX include artifacts, other products, and plural names that do not identify a single, unique entity. (For information on the treatment of facilities, see section A.2, below.)
Macintosh computers
Wall Street Journal
the Campbell Soups of the world
Named Entity Task Definition - 02 JUN 95
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