Information extraction (IE) — the problem of extracting structured information from unstructured text — has become an increasingly important topic in recent years. A SIGMOD 20...
Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li, Sriram Raghavan, Fred...
Where Information Retrieval (IR) and Text Categorization delivers a set of (ranked) documents according to a query, users of large document collections would rather like to receiv...
There are numerous rectangular signboards indoors and outdoors. The information contained in them, such as signs and text, is useful for robot navigation. In this paper, a system ...
The semantic web is expected to have an impact at least as big as that of the existing HTML based web, if not greater. However, the challenge lays in creating this semantic web an...
A key question regarding the future of the semantic web is “how will we acquire structured information to populate the semantic web on a vast scale?” One approach is to enter t...
Tom M. Mitchell, Justin Betteridge, Andrew Carlson...