An overview and classification of adaptive approaches to information extraction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3730 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 172-212

  Siefkes, Christian ^a,b   Siniakov, Peter ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Berlin Brandenburg Graduate School in Distributed Information Systems   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING; TEXT PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC PROCESSING; EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; EXTRACTED DATA; INFORMATION EXTRACTION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 36849063737     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11603412_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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