The role of a GUI in the creation of a trainable message understanding system

  • Authors:
  • Amit Bagga

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Box 90129, Duke University, Durham, NC

  • Venue:
  • CASCON '97 Proceedings of the 1997 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

The explosion in the amount of free text materials on the Internet, and the use of this information by people from all walks of life, has made the issue of generalized information extraction a central one in Natural Language Processing. We have built a system that attempts to provide any user with the ability to efficiently create and customize, for his or her own application, an information extraction system with competitive precision and recall statistics. The use of a graphical user interface (GUI), along with WordNet, in the design of the system helps take the computational linguist out of the process of customizing the system to each new domain. This is achieved by using the GUI to minimize the effort on the end user for writing the regular patterns for new domains. WordNet acts as a domain independent semantic knowledge base.