The use of web-based statistics to validate, information extraction

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-04-01, Issue , 2004, Pages 21-26

  Soderland, Stephen ^a   Etzioni, Oren ^a   Shaked, Tal ^a   Weld, Daniel S ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SEARCH ENGINES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INFORMATION EXTRACTION; POINTWISE MUTUAL INFORMATION (PMI);

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 32144464246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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