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WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Unsupervised learning of soft patterns for generating definitions from online news
Breaking news often contains timely definitions and descriptions of current terms, organizations and personalities. We utilize such web sources to construct definitions for such t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
NLPRS
2001
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Named Entity Recognition using Machine Learning Methods and Pattern-Selection Rules
Named Entity recognition, as a task of providing important semantic information, is a critical first step in Information Extraction and QuestionAnswering system. This paper propos...
Choong-Nyoung Seon, Youngjoong Ko, Jeong-Seok Kim,...
IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
Table extraction for answer retrieval
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of many information retrieval tasks. Documents often contain tables in order to communicate d...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, Andrew McCallum
WSDM
2012
ACM
252views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 3 months ago
WebSets: extracting sets of entities from the web using unsupervised information extraction
We describe a open-domain information extraction method for extracting concept-instance pairs from an HTML corpus. Most earlier approaches to this problem rely on combining cluste...
Bhavana Bharat Dalvi, William W. Cohen, Jamie Call...
AAAI
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Reinforcement Learning via AIXI Approximation
This paper introduces a principled approach for the design of a scalable general reinforcement learning agent. This approach is based on a direct approximation of AIXI, a Bayesian...
Joel Veness, Kee Siong Ng, Marcus Hutter, David Si...