Our 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 autonomous, domain...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, A...
Acquiring knowledge from the Web to build domain ontologies has become a common practice in the Ontological Engineering field. The vast amount of freely available information allo...
In this paper, we want to show which difficulties arise when automatically constructing a domain-independent knowledge base from the web. We show possible applications for such a k...
Abstract. In this document we describe our approach to a specific subtask of ontology population, the extraction of instances of relations. We present a generic approach with which...
Viktor de Boer, Maarten van Someren, Bob J. Wielin...
We describe a open-domain information extraction method for extracting concept-instance pairs from an HTML corpus. Most earlier approaches to this problem rely on combining cluste...
Bhavana Bharat Dalvi, William W. Cohen, Jamie Call...