Semantic Information Extraction: Overview and Basic Techniques
Semantic Information Extraction: Overview and Basic Techniques
Semantic Information Extraction: Overview and Basic Techniques
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<strong>Information</strong> <strong>Extraction</strong> (IE)<br />
Definitions<br />
• In Wikipedia<br />
A process to “extract structured information from unstructured<br />
<strong>and</strong>/or semi-structured machine-readable documents”<br />
Sample<br />
• "Yesterday, New-York based Foo Inc. announced their acquisition of Bar<br />
Corp.“ MergeBetween(company1,company2,date)<br />
• In “Speech <strong>and</strong> Language Processing” (D. Jurafsky & J.H. Martin)<br />
“turns the unstructured information embedded in texts into<br />
structured data”<br />
“an effective way to populate the contents of a relational database”<br />
“extract limited kinds of semantic content from text”