SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Text Analysis/Summarization Assessors
- Notice Date
- 4/15/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- SB1341-10-RQ-0307
- Archive Date
- 5/10/2010
- Point of Contact
- Keith Bubar, Phone: 3019758329
- E-Mail Address
-
keith.bubar@nist.gov
(keith.bubar@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Background: The United States Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Retrieval Group (Information Access Division/Information Technology Laboratory) runs large-scale evaluations of information retrieval systems such as document retrieval, question answering, and summarization systems. The work of the NIST Information Technology Laboratory, Information Access Division, Retrieval Group includes a set of projects whose purpose is to foster the development of computer systems that are able to analyze and manipulate the information content of artifacts originally constructed for consumption by humans. One of the artifacts of interest includes automatic summarization systems that will help a person track or follow up on a news story by giving the person summaries that focus on what is new or different as the story develops over time. The Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) portion of the task is to decide whether the content of one text fragment can be inferred from (i.e., is entailed by) the content of another text fragment. Recognizing textual entailment is a sub-problem of many human language processing tasks such as question answering and summarization. While humans are so good at processing entailment that they seldom even notice when they are doing it, automatic recognition of entailment is a challenging problem. The RTE portion of the task is developing resources to test systems' ability to recognize and process textual entailment. The end result of this project is to use the information gathered from the Contractor to modify, test or improve exiting search engines and also to develop new state of the art search engines. Also, this information is shared with universities around the USA that are developing new ways to search for data on the web. This project is part of the NIST mission of "promoting U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement in science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life". With this project NIST wants to advance the existing technology and to help create new technologies that help to improve our way of life. Scope of this Acquisition: This presolicitation notice is for a noncommercial services acquisition in the area of automatic summarization systems testing through the use of article summarization and textual entailment procedures. NIST intends to solicit this acquisition under the procedures set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures (which are for acquisitions valued up to $100,000). NIST also intends to compete this acquisition as a Total Small Business Set Aside under the NAICS code 541990, with a small business size standard of $7.0 million. The period of performance is anticipated to be less than six months. The Government intends to utilize the Labor Hour contract type for these services because it is not possible for the Government to estimate accurately the extent or duration of the work or to anticipate costs with a reasonable degree of confidence. Availability of Solicitation: NIST intends to post the solicitation on www.fbo.gov on or about 16 days after this notice is posted. Quotations will be due no later than 10 days after the solicitation is posted at www.fbo.gov. Requirement for Active Registration in CCR: Each Offeror must have an active registration in the Central Contractor Registration to be eligible to receive an award under this acquisition. All questions regarding this acquisition shall be directed by email to the primary point of contact: Keith Bubar at keith.bubar@nist.gov.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/SB1341-10-RQ-0307/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN02122801-W 20100417/100415234912-86dfcf454efc926cfe5c566401c2fec3 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
| FSG Index | This Issue's Index | Today's FBO Daily Index Page |