Transforming examples into patterns for information extraction

  • Authors:
  • Roman Yangarber;Ralph Grishman

  • Affiliations:
  • New York University, New York, NY;New York University, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • TIPSTER '98 Proceedings of a workshop on held at Baltimore, Maryland: October 13-15, 1998
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Information Extraction (IE) systems today are commonly based on pattern matching. The patterns are regular expressions stored in a customizable knowledge base. Adapting an IE system to a new subject domain entails the construction of a new pattern base --- a time-consuming and expensive task. We describe a strategy for building patterns from examples. To adapt the IE system to a new domain quickly, the user chooses a set of examples in a training text, and for each example gives the logical form entries which the example induces. The system transforms these examples into patterns and then applies meta-rules to generalize these patterns.