MUC

These datasets were created by MUC, the Message Understanding Conference.

The conference was not as important as the work needed to get into the conference. It was novel in that participants had to complete in the task in order to gain admission. The performance measure used in the tasks is F1, the geometric mean of precision and recall.

Table partially taken from [1]

Conference	Year	Text Source	Topic (Domain)	Task
MUC-1	1987	Mil. reports	Fleet Operations	Open ended
MUC-2	1989	Mil. reports	Fleet Operations	Template extraction (1 template; 10 slots)
MUC-3	1991	News reports	Terrorist activities in Latin America	Template extraction (1 template; 18 slots)
MUC-4	1992	News reports	Terrorist activities in Latin America	Template extraction (1 template; 24 slots)
MUC-5	1993	News reports	Corporate Joint Ventures, Microelectronic production	Template extraction (11 templates; 47 slots total) Some templates were nested
MUC-6	1995	News reports	Negotiation of Labor Disputes and Corporate Management Succession	Named entity extraction, Coreference, Template element, Scenario template
MUC-7	1997	News reports	Airplane crashes, and Rocket/Missile Launches

References

General information on MUC A history of the MUC conference