While Named Entity extraction is useful in many natural language applications, the coarse categories that most NE extractors work with prove insufficient for complex applications ...
Knowing the norms of a domain is crucial, but there exist no repository of norms. We propose a method to extract them from texts: texts generally do not describe a norm, but rathe...
The BANKS system enables keyword-based search on databases, together with data and schema browsing. BANKS enables users to extract information in a simple manner without any knowl...
B. Aditya, Gaurav Bhalotia, Soumen Chakrabarti, Ar...
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
How can we cull the facts we need from the overwhelming mass of information and misinformation that is the Web? The TextRunner extraction engine represents one approach, in which ...