LoLo: a system based on terminology for multilingual extraction

  • Authors:
  • Yousif Almas;Khurshid Ahmad

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK;Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • IEBeyondDoc '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Extraction Beyond The Document
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

An unsupervised learning method, based on corpus linguistics and special language terminology, is described that can extract time-varying information from text streams. The method is shown to be 'language-independent' in that its use leads to sets of regular-expressions that can be used to extract the information in typologically distinct languages like English and Arabic. The method uses the information related to the distribution of N-grams, for automatically extracting 'meaning bearing' patterns of usage in a training corpus. The analysis of an English news wire corpus (1,720,142 tokens) and Arabic news wire corpus (1,720,154 tokens) show encouraging results.