Knowledge Discovery in SportsFinder: An Agent to Extract Sports Results from the Web

  • Authors:
  • Hongen Lu;Leon Sterling;Alex Wyatt

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • PAKDD '99 Proceedings of the Third Pacific-Asia Conference on Methodologies for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 1999
  • Semantic discovery of web services

    KES'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part II

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Abstract

There is a wealth of information to be mined from the World Wide Web. Unfortunately, standard natural language processing (NLP) extraction techniques perform poorly on the choppy, semi-structured information fragments, such as sports results, which are popular to be published on the Web pages nowadays. In this paper, we present an information agent: SportsFinder, an agent to extract sports scores from the World Wide Web, as well as the knowledge discovering method to learn new express patterns to improve the agent's performance