4/15/99 Attendees: Rajeev, Svetlozar, Sebastien, Dick, Shinji, Yue We discussed extensively how to match text with DTDS using GUIDEs. A GUIDE is used to give hints to the system. The hints could be structural, for example, an education field is likely to contain a few degrees. They can be formative, for example, anything that is bold is likely to be a title. They can also be syntactic, for example, any four-digit numbers starts with a '19' is likely to be a date. Yue will lead an effort to design a language to write GUIDEs,