acl acl2010 acl2010-111 acl2010-111-reference knowledge-graph by maker-knowledge-mining

111 acl-2010-Extracting Sequences from the Web


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Author: Anthony Fader ; Stephen Soderland ; Oren Etzioni

Abstract: Classical Information Extraction (IE) systems fill slots in domain-specific frames. This paper reports on SEQ, a novel open IE system that leverages a domainindependent frame to extract ordered sequences such as presidents of the United States or the most common causes of death in the U.S. SEQ leverages regularities about sequences to extract a coherent set of sequences from Web text. SEQ nearly doubles the area under the precision-recall curve compared to an extractor that does not exploit these regularities.


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