InfoXtract: A customizable intermediate level information extraction engine

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-69

  Srihari, Rohini K ^a,b   Li, Wei ^a   Cornell, Thomas ^a   Niu, Cheng ^c  

^a Janya Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATA STRUCTURES; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION DISCOVERY; INFORMATION EXTRACTION SYSTEM; MESSAGE UNDERSTANDING CONFERENCE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 37249022302     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324906004116     Document Type: Article

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