A semi-supervised active learning algorithm for information extraction from textual data

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 258-271

  Wu, Tianhao ^a   Pottenger, William M ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-VALIDATIONS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; TRANSFORMATION-BASED LEARNING (TBL);

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA MINING; ERROR CORRECTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; RESEARCH;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 13844299022     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20119     Document Type: Article

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