There are major trends to advance the functionality of search engines to a more expressive semantic level. This is enabled by the advent of knowledge-sharing communities such as W...
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...
The KNOWITALL system aims to automate the tedious process of extracting large collections of facts (e.g., names of scientists or politicians) from the Web in an unsupervised, doma...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, A...
This paper reports on the development and application of strategies and tools for geographic information seeking and knowledge building that leverages unstructured text resources ...
Brian M. Tomaszewski, Justine Blanford, Kevin Ross...
The huge volumes of biomedical texts available online drives the increasing need for automated techniques to analyze and extract knowledge from these repositories of information. ...