Methods for domain-independent information extraction from the web: An experimental comparison

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 391-398

  Etzioni, Oren ^a   Cafarella, Michael ^a   Downey, Doug ^a   Popescu, Ana Maria ^a   Shaked, Tal ^a   Soderland, Stephen ^a   Weld, Daniel S ^a   Yates, Alexander ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOUN PHRASE (NP); PIECEMEAL SEARCH; SUBCLASS EXTRACTION;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PROBABILITY; SEARCH ENGINES; SET THEORY; STATISTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 9444284309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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