Machine learning for information extraction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1299, Issue , 1997, Pages 171-191

  Neri, Filippo ^a   Saitta, Lorenza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE LEARNING;

CONCEPT LEARNING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84947783833     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63438-x_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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