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  <Title>STERLING SOFTWARE : AN NLTOOLSET-BASED SYSTEM FOR MUC-6</Title>
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INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> For a little over two years, Sterling Software ITD has been developing the Automatic Templatin g System (ATS) [1] for automatically extracting entity and event data in the counter-narcotics domain from military messages. This system, part of the Counter Drug Intelligence System (CDIS), was built around the NLToolset [2], which was originally developed by GE and is now being developed and supported b y Lockheed-Martin . Early results showed that the system was performing better than the human analyst s in all aspects.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> ATS was in its final delivery phase at the same time as our MUC-6 development . We elected to participate despite this conflict, but it did limit us to 4 person-weeks on MUC-6, forcing us to scale bac k from our original plans and only participate in the NE and TE tasks . The results were more than gratifying.</Paragraph>
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