IR Series - Justin Betteridge - Friday, May 23, 2008, 12:00pm, NSH 3002

[Jonathan Elsas]

Reminder: Justin Betteridge is speaking at the IR series tomorrow,  
noon, with lunch provided.

On May 19, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Jonathan Elsas wrote:

> Hello --
>
> Please join us for another IR Series talk!
>
> Lunch will be provided by Yahoo!
>
> Who: Justin Betteridge
> When: Friday, May 23, 2008, 12:00 pm
> Where: NSH 3002
>
> Title: Linguistic Pattern Learning for Web Information Extraction
>
> Abstract:
> Most approaches to automatically extracting structured information  
> from the web
> rely on surface text patterns.  However, the manner in which such  
> patterns are
> defined, learned, and employed in the larger system varies with each  
> case.  In
> this talk, I will outline the spectrum of previous work in this area  
> and argue
> for a linguistically-motivated definition, a hybrid heuristic/ 
> classifier-based
> assessment, and a multi-purpose employment of textual patterns in  
> the context of
> Web Information Extraction (WIE).  I will also give preliminary  
> results from
> adopting such an approach in our WIE system.
>
>