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  <Title>MITRE: DESCRIPTION OF THE ALEMBIC SYSTEM USED FOR MUC-6</Title>
  <Section position="9" start_page="154" end_page="154" type="concl">
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CONCLUDING THOUGHT S
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    <Paragraph position="0"> All in all, we are quite pleased with the performance of Alembic in Muc-6. While we regret no t participating in the ST task, we do believe that the framework was up to it, especially in light of our TE scores.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> There were many lessons learned, and there will continue to be, as we further analyze our results and mak e improvements to the system . Several points stand out . We had hoped to avoid full NP parsing, but the definition of the ORG DESCRIPTOR slot clearly requires this, and we will need to return to larger-scale parsing strategies in the future. We had hoped to include more machine-learned phraser rules, and as the rule learner matures, we almost certainly will .</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> One thing is clear to us, however, and that is that rule sequences are an extremely powerful tool . They were easy to hand-craft and adapt to the MUC-6 requirements. They run fast . And they work well.</Paragraph>
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