Scalable ad-hoc entity extraction from text collections

  • Authors:
  • Sanjay Agrawal;Kaushik Chakrabarti;Surajit Chaudhuri;Venkatesh Ganti

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research;Microsoft Research;Microsoft Research;Microsoft Research

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Supporting entity extraction from large document collections is important for enabling a variety of important data analysis tasks. In this paper, we introduce the "ad-hoc" entity extraction task where entities of interest are constrained to be from a list of entities that is specific to the task. In such scenarios, traditional entity extraction techniques that process all the documents for each ad-hoc entity extraction task can be significantly expensive. In this paper, we propose an efficient approach that leverages the inverted index on the documents to identify the subset of documents relevant to the task and processes only those documents. We demonstrate the efficiency of our techniques on real datasets.