Information Extractionfrom Web Documents.ppt

Information Extractionfrom Web Documents CS 652 Information Extraction and Integration Li Xu Yihong Ding IR and IE IR (Information Retrieval) Retrieves relevant documents from collections Information theory, probabilistic theory, and statistics IE (Information Extraction) Extracts relevant information from documents Machine learning, computational linguistics, and natural language processing History of IE Large amount of both online and offline textual data. Message Understanding Conference (MUC) Quantitative evaluation of IE systems Tasks Latin American terrorism Joint ventures Microelect