Naval Ocean Systems Center
Beth M. Sundheim · 1989
The Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC) is supporting DARPA's natural language research program in the area of test and evaluation. Preparations are being made for a task-oriented evaluation of text understanding systems, building off the natural language contractors' familiarity with texts taken from naval messages and NOSC's previous experience in carrying out system evaluations. The objective of the work is to devise an evaluation plan that will satisfy the needs for characterizing the current state of the art in theory- and implementation-independent ways and for setting baselines against which progress can be measured.