Information extraction: Beyond document retrieval

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 70-105

  Gaizauskas, Robert ^a   Wilks, Yorick ^a  

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EID: 0032405129     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000007162     Document Type: Article

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