Automating the construction of internet portals with machine learning

Information Retrieval

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-163

  McCallum, Andrew Kachites ^a   Nigam, Kamal ^a   Rennie, Jason ^a   Seymore, Kristie ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crawling; Expectation maximization; Hidden markov models; Information extraction; Naive bayes; Reinforcement learning; Spidering; Text classification; Unlabeled data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000806922     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009953814988     Document Type: Article

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