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  <Title>MUC/MET Evaluation Trends</Title>
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CURRENT WORK
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Currently, the Named Entity task used to evaluate information extraction systems on newswire articles is being adapted to evaluate such systems when processing errorful data, specifically the transcriptions done by speech recognition systems on Broadcast News.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The purpose of this form of evaluation is two-fold.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Improvements in speech recognition are expected to focus on the information-bearing elements of the signal.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Improvements in information extraction are expected to make the systems more robust in the kinds of input they can handle.</Paragraph>
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