Learning information extraction rules for semi-structured and free text

Machine Learning

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 233-272

  Soderland, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

FREE TEXT; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; RULE LEARNING; SEMI STRUCTURED TEXT;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032624184     PISSN: 08856125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007562322031     Document Type: Article

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