MUC

MUC is most widely recognized as the IATA airport code for Munich Airport, the major international gateway to Munich in Bavaria, Germany. Located near the municipality of Oberding, the airport serves both international and domestic travel and is a key hub for air transport in southern Germany. The code MUC is used in airline timetables, reservations, and baggage handling to identify the airport.

In medical contexts, muc or muc. is sometimes used as an abbreviation for mucus or mucosa. Abbreviations vary by institution, and formal medical writing typically uses the full terms “mucus” or “mucous membrane” to avoid ambiguity.

In the field of computational linguistics, MUC refers to the Message Understanding Conference series. Initiated in the 1980s and conducted through the 1990s, MUC evaluations provided benchmarks and tasks for information extraction research, including named-entity recognition and event extraction, and played a significant role in shaping early practical NLP systems.