Information Extraction as a Basis for High-Precision Text Classification

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 296-333

  Riloff, Ellen ^a   Lehnert, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

information extraction; text classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA ACQUISITION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUGMENTED RELEVANCY SIGNATURES ALGORITHMS; CASE BASED TEXT CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; PHRASES; TRAINING CORPUS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0028460389     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/183422.183428     Document Type: Article

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