Automatic Content Extraction (ACE) (original) (raw)

What is ACE?

The objective of the ACE program is to develop automatic content extraction technology to support automatic processing of human language in text form. The program is devoted to three sources types. These are namely newswire, broadcast news (with text derived from ASR), and newspaper (with text derived from OCR). ACE technology R&D; is aimed at supporting various classification, filtering, and selection applications by extracting and representing language content (i.e., the meaning conveyed by the data). Thus the ACE program requires the development of technologies that automatically detect and characterize this meaning.

The ACE program will be carried out in several phases, beginning with EDT (Entity Detection and Tracking) Phase-1.

View the powerpoint presentation describing the ACE program. It was originally given at the TIDES program Kick-off meeting.

Joining the ACE Communtity

You may subscribe to the general ACE mailing list: "ace_list@nist.gov" by sending e-mail to: listproc@nist.gov include in the body subscribe ace_list. The list archive is publically available.

Contact NIST for information about ACE related resources available to interested researchers.