Tag mentions of people in email

      Your task is to read from English email text and tag parts of the text that 
      refer to people – including proper nouns like “John” and expressions like “my 
      older brother.”  You will be presented with text from the Enron Email Corpus 
      (made available to the public after the company's legal investigation) and 
      asked to identify spans of text that correspond to two simple categories of 
      person expressions.  These categories are “person_named” and “person_unnamed.”

      "person_named" refers to any person referenced by their first name, last name, 
      or initials.  This does NOT correspond to names within email addresses.  Also, 
      this does not include the "'s" in possessives.

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              Hey Steve, let's go out for lunch.

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              That Andrew W. K. concert was awesome.

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              Are you coming to T. J.'s birthday party?

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      “person_unnamed” refers to any person referenced indirectly without using 
      their name.  This does NOT correspond to pronouns like “him,” “her,” “they,” 
      or “them.”

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              My boss wants me to work late.

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              She's snobbier than the the Queen of England.

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              Say what you will, but I think the man's a genius.

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      Note that there may be multiple tags in the same sentence for the same person:

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              John likes to talk big, but deep down inside he's just a big softy.

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      Tips:

      1) When in doubt, go with your gut and make the best guess.  Making a bad 
      guess is still better than making no guess at all.
      2) When you can, always tag the largest contiguous span of text.

      

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Finally: you do not have to highlight mentions in the email headers, e.g. "To:", "From:", or "Subject:" lines.

email_subject:

FW:  Harold Buchanan   to Attend MIT Sloan School Executive MBA Program

email_body:

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????????????????????????????????????????????  Rick
  ---------------------- Forwarded by  Rick   Buy/HOU/ECT on 02/23/2001 08:09 AM 
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From:  Michael Tribolet  /ENRON@enronXgate on 02/23/2001 07:11 AM
To:  Rick  Buy/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc:  
Subject: FW:  Harold Buchanan   to Attend MIT Sloan School Executive MBA Program



FYI

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Dalia, Minal  
  Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 7:10 PM
To:  Tribolet, Michael  ;  Gorny, Vladimir  ;  Hachen, James  ;  Gorte, David  ;  Ruane, 
Mark  ;  Bradford, William
  Subject:  Harold Buchanan   to Attend MIT Sloan School Executive MBA Program


---------------------- Forwarded by  Minal Dalia  /HOU/EES on 02/22/2001 07:08 
PM ---------------------------

	Enron Energy Services  From:  EES Office of Chairman                          
 02/22/2001 05:30 PM
	


Sent by:  Carol Moffett
  To: EES_Employees
cc:  
Subject:  Harold Buchanan   to Attend MIT Sloan School Executive MBA Program

We are pleased to announce that  Harold Buchanan   will attend MIT Sloan School 
Executive MBA Program.   Harold   and his family will leave for Boston in 
April.  In the meantime, he will work on special projects for EES and  Marty 
Sunde   will be assume leadership of  Harold  's organization until a replacement