Outclassing wikipedia in open-domain information extraction: Weakly-supervised acquisition of attributes over conceptual hierarchies

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 639-647

  Pasca, Marius ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE EXTRACTION; CLASS LABELS; CONCEPTUAL HIERARCHY; SIMILAR DATUM; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 78651466895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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