Editing Information extraction (section)

==History==
Information extraction dates back to the late 1970s in the early days of NLP.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2c90/fa59c6d9beed8dcb0e844725b872d3f33a35.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220184608/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2c90/fa59c6d9beed8dcb0e844725b872d3f33a35.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-02-20|title=Information Extraction|last1=Cowie|first1=Jim|last2=Wilks|first2=Yorick|page=3|year=1996|citeseerx=10.1.1.61.6480|s2cid=10237124}}</ref> An early commercial system from the mid-1980s was JASPER built for [[Reuters]] by the Carnegie Group Inc with the aim of providing [[real-time data|real-time financial news]] to financial traders.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/A92-1024|chapter=Automatic Extraction of Facts from Press Releases to Generate News Stories|last1=Andersen|first1=Peggy M.|last2=Hayes|first2=Philip J.|citeseerx=10.1.1.14.7943|last3=Huettner|first3=Alison K.|last4=Schmandt|first4=Linda M.|last5=Nirenburg|first5=Irene B.|last6=Weinstein|first6=Steven P.|title=Proceedings of the third conference on Applied natural language processing -|year=1992|pages=170–177|doi=10.3115/974499.974531|s2cid=14746386}}</ref>

Beginning in 1987, IE was spurred by a series of [[Message Understanding Conference]]s. MUC is a competition-based conference<ref>Marco Costantino, Paolo Coletti, Information Extraction in Finance, Wit Press, 2008. {{ISBN|978-1-84564-146-7}}</ref> that focused on the following domains: 
*MUC-1 (1987), MUC-3 (1989): Naval operations messages.
*MUC-3 (1991), MUC-4 (1992): Terrorism in Latin American countries.
*MUC-5 (1993): [[Joint venture]]s and microelectronics domain.
*MUC-6 (1995): News articles on management changes.
*MUC-7 (1998): Satellite launch reports.

Considerable support came from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ([[DARPA]]), who wished to automate mundane tasks performed by government analysts, such as scanning newspapers for possible links to terrorism.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}