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  <Title>SYNCHRONETICS : MUC-3 TEST RESULTS AND ANALYSI S</Title>
  <Section position="2" start_page="0" end_page="108" type="intro">
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RESULTS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The Synchronetics entry in the MUC-3 competition is a full-parser, semantic net-based system written i n C. Our system attempts to fill the first four slots of each template and, in some cases, the three perpetrato r slots and the human-target-ids slot. The Synchronetics system achieved the following official scores on the</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> These official results were achieved despite a system bug that caused almost half of the roughly 1400 sentences  in the corpus to be thrown away without being processed at all . The bug arose because a buffer that was supposed to be 200 items long was inadvertantly changed to be 20 items long . With this bug fixed, we achieved the following unofficial scores :</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> We do not at present have any settings that can be modified to alter the recall/precision tradeoff .</Paragraph>
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