Ontology-Based Extraction and Structuring of Information from Data-Rich Unstructured Documents

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn 1998-January, Issue , 1998, Pages 52-59

  Embley, David W ^a   Campbell, Douglas M ^a   Smith, Randy D ^a   Liddle, Stephen W ^b  

^a 3361 TMCB   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

information extraction; information structuring; ontology; semistructured data; unstructured data

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

DOCUMENT-BASED; EXTRACTING INFORMATION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INFORMATION STRUCTURING; NEW APPROACHES; ONTOLOGY'S; ONTOLOGY-BASED; SEMISTRUCTURED DATA; UNSTRUCTURED DATA; UNSTRUCTURED DOCUMENTS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84883550411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/288627.288641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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