A redundancy-based method for the extraction of relation instances from the Web

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 816-831

  de Boer, Viktor ^a   van Someren, Maarten ^a   Wielinga, Bob J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Information Extraction; Ontology population; Semantic Web; Web mining

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION EXTRACTION; ONTOLOGY POPULATION; WEB MINING;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; REDUNDANCY;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 34447556958     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: 10959300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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