PERFORMANCE NOTES:

Note that these results are underestimates for DATE, TIME, etc. because
not all the test data (mcdm.test) was marked for them.  But they're not
bad undercounts, because the classifiers have as much trouble based on
the "all" data on recall as precision.  For example:

Sept 2006 F1 scores on mcdm.test

ner-eng-ie.crf-3-all2006.ser.gz
Memory: 100 MB
PERSON	ORGANIZATION	LOCATION
89.19	80.15		85.48

ner-eng-ie.crf-3-all2006-distsim.ser.gz
Memory: 320MB
PERSON	ORGANIZATION	LOCATION
91.88	82.91		88.21

ner-eng-ie.crf-7-muc.ser.gz
Memory: 120MB
PERSON  ORGANIZATION    LOCATION        DATE    TIME    MONEY   PERCENT
74.45   59.93		76.27		55.59   73.12   64.96	71.05

ner-eng-ie.crf-7-muc-distsim.ser.gz
Memory: 350MB
PERSON  ORGANIZATION    LOCATION        DATE    TIME    MONEY   PERCENT
84.09   65.20		83.13		56.68   72.19	66.01   70.82

ner-eng-ie.crf-8-all2006.ser.gz
Memory: 120MB
PERSON  ORGANIZATION    LOCATION        DATE    TIME    MONEY   PERCENT
89.15   79.93		85.07		47.43   69.79   59.10	29.87

ner-eng-ie.crf-8-all2006-distsim.ser.gz
Memory: 350MB
PERSON  ORGANIZATION    LOCATION        DATE    TIME    MONEY   PERCENT
92.11   82.55		87.65		47.95   69.59	58.82   31.17




train_all.8.distsim_test_mcdm.test.results
processed 125957 tokens with 11947 phrases; found: 11465 phrases; correct: 9437.
accuracy:  95.16%; precision:  82.31%; recall:  78.99%; FB1:  80.62
             DATE: precision:  85.23%; recall:  33.36%; FB1:  47.95  535
         LOCATION: precision:  85.06%; recall:  90.41%; FB1:  87.65  3293
             MISC: precision:   0.00%; recall:   0.00%; FB1:   0.00  518
            MONEY: precision:  71.09%; recall:  50.17%; FB1:  58.82  211
     ORGANIZATION: precision:  84.04%; recall:  81.12%; FB1:  82.55  3846
          PERCENT: precision:  64.86%; recall:  20.51%; FB1:  31.17  37
           PERSON: precision:  91.39%; recall:  92.83%; FB1:  92.11  2905
             TIME: precision:  99.17%; recall:  53.60%; FB1:  69.59  120