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  <Title>Japanese Named Entity Extraction Evaluation - Analysis of Results -</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The need for II1 and IE technologies is getting larger because of the improvements ill computer technology and the appearance of the Internet.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Many researchers in the field feel that the ew~luation based projects in the USA, MUC (MUC Homepage, 1999) and TREC (TREC Homepage, 2000), have played a very important role in each field. In Japan, however, while there has been good research, we have had some dilficulties comparing systems based on the same platform, since our researdt is conducted at many different; Ulfiversities, companies, and laboratories using different data and evaluation lneasures. Our goal is to have a common platform in order to evaluate systems with the stone standard. We believe such projects are nseflfl not only for comparing system performance lint also to address the following issues:  1) To share and exchange problems among researchers, null 2) To aeeulntll~,te large quantities of data, 3) To let other people know the importance  and the quality of IR and IE techniques.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Finishing the project, we believe we achieved these goals.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> In this paper we will describe one of the two tasks in the IR.EX project, the Nmned Entity task.</Paragraph>
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