The NIST series of information extraction technology evaluation will continue in May 2008. ACE08 will include:

• Local (within-document) EDR (Entity Detection and Recognition) and RDR (Relation Detection and Recognition) for English and Arabic.
• Global (cross-document) EDR and RDR for English and Arabic.

The evaluation is open to ACE participants and all other researchers that find the task of interest.

Please explore the ACE 2008 Evaluation Plan describing the ACE 2008 evaluation protocols and data, as well as necessary registration forms, in Documentation.

Documentation

Schedule

Software

Cross-doc pilot corpus

A pilot corpus for cross-document annotation is available from the LDC.

Joining the ACE Community

You can subscribe to the general ACE mailing list hosted by NIST, ace_list@nist.gov, by sending e-mail to listproc@nist.gov. Include "subscribe ace_list" in the body.

Contact ace_poc@nist.gov for information about ACE related resources available to interested researchers.