Open information extraction from the web

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 68-74

  Etzioni, Oren ^a,b   Banko, Michele ^b   Soderland, Stephen ^b   Weld, Daniel S ^b  

^a Department of Computer Science ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS; DOMAIN SPECIFICS; EXTRACTING INFORMATIONS; EXTRACTION PATTERNS; GENERAL MODELS; GRAPHICAL MODELS; INFORMATION EXTRACTIONS; PATTERN-MATCHING; TRAINING DATUM; TRAINING EXAMPLES; TRAINING SETS; WEB PAGES;

GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 59449097589     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1409360.1409378     Document Type: Review

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