Automatic template creation for information extraction (1998)
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@TECHREPORT{Collier98automatictemplate,
author = {Robin Collier},
title = {Automatic template creation for information extraction},
institution = {},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
Information Extraction (IE) approaches currently assume that a template exists which sufficiently defines the requirements of the task. Substantial human effort is required to generate these basic templates and to provide a development corpus. In the two principal IE competitions, the Message Understanding Conference (MUC) and Tipster, the templates were constructed directly from the experience of analysts. This manual approach cannot always be assumed. This proposal concerns the automatic construction of MUC-style templates, substantially reducing the human effort required. The approach will carry out a corpus-based analysis of task-relevant documents, identifying and analysing the interaction between the fundamental elements. A resource which defines semantic relationships will be necessary to identify and categorise these fundamental elements. This application is of particular interest to researchers in the field of IE and automatic abstracting. 1 1.







