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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”

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