Integrating Information Extraction and Automatic Hyperlinking

This paper presents a novel information system integrating advanced information extraction technology and automatic hyper-linking. Extracted entities are mapped into a domain ontology that relates concepts to a selection of hyperlinks. For information extraction, we use SProUT, a generic platform for the development and use of multilingual text processing components. By combining finite-state and unification-based formalisms, the grammar formalism used in SProUT offers both processing efficiency and a high degree of decalrativeness. The ExtraLink demo system showcases the extraction of relevant concepts from German texts in the tourism domain, offering the direct connection to associated web documents on demand.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Stephan Busemann, Witold Drozdzynski, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Jakub Piskorski, Ulrich Schäfer, Hans Uszkoreit, Feiyu Xu
• Keywords: ACL 2003, ACL 2007, Information Extraction, Information Extraction Technology, Multilingual Text Processing