An empirical study of automated dictionary construction for information extraction in three domains

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 85, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 101-134

  Riloff, Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MICROELECTRONICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE;

AUTOSLOG; INFORMATION EXTRACTION;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030213896     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0004-3702(95)00123-9     Document Type: Article

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