GTE's Text Interpretation Aid (TIA)
Charles T. Taylor · 1991
GTE has actively participated in the Third Annual Message Understanding Conference (MUC-3) sponsored by the Naval Ocean System Center (NOSC) for the past 7 months using its natural language processing system, TIA (Text Interpretation Aid)[5]. During this period, TIA system development consisted of two tasks: (1) lexicon tool development, and (2) tailoring TIA to meet the specific needs of the MUC-3 domain, i.e., terrorism in Latin American countries. Lexicon tool development facilitates system (lexicon) adaptation to new domains (terrorism, drug interdiction, third world launchings, etc.) by semi-automating the manual task of entering words/phrases into TIA's lexicons. Tailoring the existing TIA system to parse and extract MUC-3 domain messages, has allowed GTE to participate in the MUC-3 conference tasks.