This paper presents a methodology for learning taxonomic relations from a set of documents that each explain one of the concepts. Three different feature extraction approaches with...
For large scale automatic semantic video characterization, it is necessary to learn and model a large number of semantic concepts. A major obstacle to this is the insufficiency o...
As directories of named places, gazetteers link the names to geographic footprints and place types. Most existing gazetteers are managed strictly top-down: entries can only be adde...
The Semantic Web requires automatic ontology population methods. We developed an approach, that given existing ontologies, extracts instances of ontology relations, a specific subt...
Viktor de Boer, Maarten van Someren, Bob J. Wielin...
Most information extraction systems either use hand written extraction patterns or use a machine learning algorithm that is trained on a manually annotated corpus. Both of these a...