WebSets: Extracting sets of entities from the Web using unsupervised information extraction

WSDM 2012 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 243-252

  Dalvi, Bhavana ^a   Cohen, William W ^a   Callan, Jamie ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Hyponymy relation acquisition; Web mining

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; DATA SETS; HTML TABLES; HYPONYMY RELATION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION METHODS; WEB MINING;

DATA MINING; HTML; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84858032933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2124295.2124327     Document Type: Conference Paper

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