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  <Title>Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP), pages 652-659, Vancouver, October 2005. c(c)2005 Association for Computational Linguistics A Methodology for Extrinsically Evaluating Information Extraction Performance</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper reports a preliminary study addressing two challenges in measuring the effectiveness of information extraction (IE) technology: * Developing a methodology for extrinsic evaluation of IE; and, * Estimating the impact of improving IE technology on the ability to perform an application task.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The methodology described can be employed for further controlled experiments regarding information extraction.</Paragraph>
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