APPENDIX A :
SYSTEM WALKTHROUGH REFERENCE MATERIAL S
1 . EJV
1 .1 Text
<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 GOL F
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 B Y
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 OFFICIAL S
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 GOOD S
MAKER PLANS TO INCREASE PRODUCTION OF LUXURY CLUBS IN JAPAN .
</TXT>
<doc>
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1.2 Key Template
<TEMPLATE-0592-1> :=
DOC NR : 0592
DOC DATE: 241189
DOCUMENT SOURCE : "Jiji Press Ltd."
CONTENT: <TIE_UPRELATIONSHIP-0592-1 >
DATE TEMPLATE COMPLETED : 251192
EXTRACTION TIME: 0
COMMENT: / "TOOL_VERSION: HUME.7.1 .def.def'
/ "FILLRULES_VERSION: EJV.7.1"
<TIE_UP_RELATIONSHIP-0592-1> :=
TIE-UP STATUS : EXISTING
ENTITY: <ENTITY-0592-1 >
<ENTITY-0592-2>
<ENTITY-0592-3>
JOINT VENTURE CO: <ENTITY-0592-4>
OWNERSHIP: <OWNERSHIP-0592-1 >
ACTIVITY : <ACTIVITY-0592-1 >
<ENTITY-0592-1> :_
NAME: BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO
ALIASES : "BRIDGESTONE SPORTS"
"BRIDGESTON SPORTS "
NATIONALITY : Japan (COUNTRY)
TYPE: COMPANY
ENTITY RELATIONSHIP: <ENTITY_RELATIONSHIP-0592-1>
<ENTITY-0592-2> :_
NAME: UNION PRECISION CASTING CO
ALIASES: "UNION PRECISION CASTING"
LOCATION: Taiwan (COUNTRY)
NATIONALITY : Taiwan (COUNTRY)
TYPE: COMPANY
ENTITY RELATIONSHIP: <ENTITY_RELATIONSHIP-0592-1>
<ENTITY-0592-3> :=
NAME : TAGA CO
NATIONALITY : Japan (COUNTRY)
TYPE: COMPANY
ENTITY RELATIONSHIP: <ENTITY_RELATIONSHIP-0592-1 >
<ENTITY-0592-4> :=
NAME : BRIDGESTONE SPORTS TAIWAN CO
LOCATION: "KAOHSIUNG" (UNKNOWN) Taiwan (COUNTRY)
TYPE: COMPANY
ENTITY RELATIONSHIP : <ENTITY_RELATIONSHIP-0592-1>
<INDUSTRY-0592-1> :=
INDUSTRY-TYPE: PRODUCTION
PRODUCT/SERVICE: (39 "20,000 IRON AND METAL WOOD' [CLUBS]")
/ (39 "GOLF [CLUBS]" )
/ (39 "GOLF [CLUBS] TO BE SHIPPED TO JAPAN")
<ENTITY_RELATIONSHIP-0592-1> :=
ENTITY 1 : <ENTITY-0592-1 >
<ENTITY-0592-2>
<ENTITY-0592-3>
ENTITY2 : <ENTITY-0592-4>
REL OF ENTITY2 TO ENTITY I : CHILD
STATUS: CURRENT
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<ACTIVITY-0592-1> :=
INDUSTRY: <INDUSTRY-0592-1 >
ACTIVITY-SITE: (Taiwan (COUNTRY) <ENTITY-0592-4>)
START TIME: <TIME-0592-1>
<TIME-0592-1> :=
DURING: 0190
<OWNERSHIP-0592-1> :=
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TOTAL-CAPITALIZATION : 20000000 TWD
OWNERSHIP-% : (<ENTITY-0592-3> 10)
(<ENTITY-0592-2> 15)
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1 .3 QUESTIONS TO ADDRESS
1.Coreference detennination
for:
	
"LOCAL CONCERN",
"UNION PRECISION CASTING CO.' OF TAIWAN"
for:
	
"A JAPANESE TRADING HOUSE",
"TAGA CO ., A COMPANY ACTIVE IN TRADING WITH TAIWAN"
for:
	
"A JOINT VENTURE",
"THE NEW COMPANY, BASED IN KAOHSIUNG, SOUTHERN TAIWAN",
"THE JOINT VENTURE, BRIDGESTONE SPORTS TAIWAN CO.",
"THE TAIWAN UNIT"
for:
	
"BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO.",
"BRIDGESTON SPORTS",
"BRIDGESTONE SPORTS" ,
"THE JAPANESE SPORTS GOODS MAKER "
Which coreferences did your system get? Of those, which could it have gotten 6 months ago (at the previous
evaluation)? How can you improve the system to get the rest?
2. Did your system get the OWNERSHIPs, in particular from " ... THE REMAINDER BY TAGA CO ."?
2. EME
2.1 Text
<doc>
<REFNO> 000132038 </REFNO>
<DOCNO> 2789568 </DOCNO>
<DD> October 19, 1990 </DD>
<SO> Comline Electronics </SO>
<TXT>
In the second quarter of 1991, Nikon Corp. (7731) plans to market the
"NSR-1755EX8A," a new stepper intended for use in the production of 64 -
Mbit DRAMs . The stepper will use an 248-nm excimer laser as a ligh t
source and will have a resolution of 0.45 micron, compared to the 0.5
micron of the company's latest stepper. Nikon will price the excimer
laser stepper at 300-350 million yen, and the company expects to sell
50 systems during the initial year of marketing .
COMLINE NEWS SERVICE, Sugetsu Building, 3-12-7 Kita-Aoyama ,
Minato-Ku, Tokyo 107, Japan. Telex 2428134 COMLN J .
</TXT>
</doc>
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2.2 Key Template
<TEMPLATE-2789568-1> :=
DOC NR: 2789568
DOC DATE: 191090
DOCUMENT SOURCE: "Comline Electronics"
CONTENT:<MICROELECTRONICS_CAPABILITY-2789568-1 >
<MICROELECTRONICS_CAPABILITY-2789568-2>
DATE TEMPLATE COMPLETED : 031292
EXTRACTION TIME: 7
COMMENT:/ "TOOL_VERSION: LOCKE .5.2.0"
/ "FILLRULES_VERSION : EME.5.2.1 "
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<MICROELECTRONICS_CAPABILITY-2789568-2> :=
PROCESS : <LITHOGRAPHY-2789568-2>
MANUFACTURER: <ENTITY-2789568-1>
DISTRIBUTOR: <ENTITY-2789568-1 >
<ENTITY-2789568-1> :=
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TYPE: COMPANY
<LITHOGRAPHY-2789568-1> :_
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GRANULARITY: ( RESOLUTION 0.45 MI )
DEVICE : <DEVICE-2789568-1 >
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EQUIPMENT: <EQUIPMENT-2789568-2>
<DEVICE-2789568-1> :=
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SIZE: (64 MBITS )
<EQUIPMENT-2789568-I> :_
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MANUFACTURER : <ENTITY-2789568-1 >
MODULES : <EQUIPMENT-2789568-3 >
EQUIPMENT_TYPE: STEPPER
STATUS: IN_USE
<EQUIPMENT-2789568-2> :=
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EQUIPMENT_TYPE: STEPPER
STATUS: IN_USE
<EQUIPMENT-2789568-3> :=
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2.3 Questions to Addres s
(1) What information triggers the instantiation of each of the two LITHOGRAPHY objects ?
(2) What information indicates the role of the Nikon Corp . for each Microelectronics Capability ?
(3) Explain how your system captured the GRANULARITY information for "The company's latest stepper ."
(4) I low does your system determine EQUIPMENT_TYPE for "the new stepper"? and for "the company's latest stepper" ?
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(5) How does your system determine the STATUS of each equipment object ?
(6) Why is the DEVICE object only instantiated for LITHOGRAPHY-1?
3. JJV
3.1 Text
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3 .3 Questions to Address
TIE-UPS
Article 0002 is interesting because the text can be interpreted in more than one way in determining the number of tic ups.
The key template lists only two tie-ups, as follows :
a) between Toukyou Kaijou Kasai Hoken and Daiwa Shouken ,
b)between Nisshin Kasai Kaijou Hoken, Douwa Kasai Kaijou Hoken and Yamaichi Shouken .
In the case of b) above, a "common sense" reading of the text would probably argue that separate tie-up agreements are
planned between Nisshin Kasai and Yamaichi, and between Douwa Kasai and Yamaichi . However, there is no clear
textual evidence to support this interpretation completely over the interpretation where all three companies tie u p
together. Therefore, in the case of b) above, the analysts felt that the best interpretation was to instantiate a single tie -
up, since there is no explicit linguistic evidence in the text to indicate that these were separate tie-ups.
(1) How does your system determine whether there is a reportable tie-up ?
(2) In Article 0002, how many tie-ups were found? What strategies are used to determine the number of tie-ups in
Sentence 2?
ENTITIES
(3) How does your system determine the entities in a tie-up?
(4) How many discourse entities were identified anywhere in the text, and how did the system determine which of thes e
were reportable?
(5) Explain any difficulties you had in identifying the following :
a) the correct number of reportable entities
b) the correct number of tie-ups (correct, for the sake of this walk-through allows BOTH interpretation s
described in b) above, even though the key template does not .)
c) the correct links between reportable entities and reportable tie-ups .
(6) How does your system determine aliases for entities ?
(7) What problems were there in detecting the alias for the ENTITY named Toukyou Kaijou Kasai Hoken?
OTHER SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ARTICL E
(8) Sentence 2 ends with a general statement about products developed in tie-ups between insurance companies an d
securities companies. How would your system determine that this is a generic, not a specific reference ?
(9) Discuss any specific analysis your system does to handle teens like "ryousha", which appears in Sentence 2. How
does your system deal with the usage of the particle "no" that precedes it ?
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4.3 Questions to Addres s
1. How does the system determine the existence of a reportable microelectronics capability ?
2. Three entities are mentioned in this article . How did your system determine which were involved in the ME
capability? (If the joint venture company was not selected, was it rejected because its activity was in the future, or some
other basis?)
3. How does the system identify company names? How does it associate locations with entities ?
4. How does your system associate film type with each ME capability? (In this article "CVD" is immediately precede d
by "metal film ." Will your present strategy allow more remote references? )
5. How does you system determine the existence of reportable equipment? How is equipment type determined? (Woul d
the determination of a new equipment type generate a new ME capability?)
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