Knight-Ridder Information’s Value Adding Name Finder: A Variation on the Theme of FASTUS
Arkady Borkovsky · 1995
Knight-Ridder Information, Inc., participated in MUC-6 with VANF (Valu e Adding Name Finder), the system used by Knight-Ridder Information i n production for adding a Company Names descriptor field to online newspape r and newswire databases . Knight-Ridder Information participated in the NE tas k only . The system used for MUC-6 is exactly the same as is used in production. The only difference is the input and output formats . VANF used a cascaded non-deterministic state machines approach and is based on FASTUS .