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Hybrid in-database inference for declarative information extraction

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Hybrid in-database inference for declarative information extraction
In the database community, work on information extraction (IE) has centered on two themes: how to effectively manage IE tasks, and how to manage the uncertainties that arise in the IE process in a scalable manner. Recent work has proposed a probabilistic database (PDB) based declarative IE system that supports a leading statistical IE model, and an associated inference algorithm to answer top-k-style queries over the probabilistic IE outcome. Still, the broader problem of effectively supporting general probabilistic inference inside a PDB-based declarative IE system remains open. In this paper, we explore the in-database implementations of a wide variety of inference algorithms suited to IE, including two Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms, Viterbi and sum-product algorithms. We describe the rules for choosing appropriate inference algorithms based on the model, the query and the text, considering the trade-off between accuracy and runtime. Based on these rules, we describe a hybrid ...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Garo
Added 17 Sep 2011
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Type Journal
Year 2011
Where SIGMOD
Authors Daisy Zhe Wang, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Garofalakis, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael L. Wick
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