Learning Pinocchio: Adaptive information extraction for real world applications

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 145-165

  Ciravegna, F ^a   Lavelli, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; HTML; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES; XML;

ADAPTIVE INFORMATION EXTRACTION; RULE INDUCTION ALGORITHM;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 3142719682     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S135132490400333X     Document Type: Article

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