Learning from the web: Extracting general world knowledge from noisy text

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-10-02, Issue , 2010, Pages 8-13

  Gordon, Jonathan ^a   Van Durme, Benjamin ^b   Schubert, Lenhart K ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC FILTERING; KNOWLEDGE BASE; WEB CORPORA; WIKIPEDIA; WORLD KNOWLEDGE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 79959762525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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