Information extraction from Wikipedia: Moving down the long tail

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 731-739

  Wu, Fei ^a   Hoffmann, Raphael ^a   Weld, Daniel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Semantic Web; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

DESIGN VARIATIONS; HIGH PRECISION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INTERNAL STRUCTURES; LONG TAILS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; QUALITY INFORMATIONS; RETRAINING TECHNIQUES; TRAINING DATUM; WIKIPEDIA;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION THEORY; METAL RECOVERY; MINING; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; TAXONOMIES;

DATA MINING;

EID: 65449144450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1401890.1401978     Document Type: Conference Paper

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