University of Durham: description of the LOLITA system as used in MUC-6

ABSTRACT

This document describes the LOLITA system and how it was extended to run the four MUC tasks, discusses the resulting system's performance on the required "walk-through" article, and then considers the performance of this system on the final evaluation set.

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