Title

Categorizing Web Pages as a Preprocessing Step for Information Extraction

Author(s)

Viktor Pekar, Richard Evans, Ruslan Mitkov

Computational Linguistics Group, University of Wolverhampton

Session

O16-EW

Abstract

At present, information systems combining crawling and information extraction (IE) technologies acquire a lot of research and industrial interest. In this paper, we present an algorithm that exploits techniques for unsupervised IE pattern acquisition in order to facilitate identification of web pages containing information relevant to the IE task.

Keyword(s)

text categorization, information extraction, automated acquisition of IE patterns

Language(s) English
Full Paper

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