The multilingual entity task (MET) overview
Roberta H. Merchant, Mary Ellen Okurowski, Nancy A. Chinchor · 1996
In November, 1996, the Message Understanding Conference-6 (MUC-6) evaluation of named entity identification demonstrated that systems are approaching human performance on English language texts [10]. Informal and anonymous, the MET provided a new opportunity to assess progress on the same task in Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese. Preliminary results indicate that MET systems in all three languages performed comparably to those of the MUC-6 evaluation in English.