Utilizing the world wide web as an encyclopedia: extracting term descriptions from semi-structured texts

Authors:
Atsushi Fujii;Tetsuya Ishikawa
Affiliations:
University of Library and Information Science, Tsukuba, Japan;University of Library and Information Science, Tsukuba, Japan
Venue:
ACL '00 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
2000

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method to extract descriptions of technical terms from Web pages in order to utilize the World Wide Web as an encyclopedia. We use linguistic patterns and HTML text structures to extract text fragments containing term descriptions. We also use a language model to discard extraneous descriptions, and a clustering method to summarize resultant descriptions. We show the effectiveness of our method by way of experiments.