Unsupervised Information Extraction by Text Segmentation

• Main Authors: Cortez, Eli (Author), Silva, Altigran S. da (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Database management.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval.; Computer Science.; Database Management.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Information Storage and Retrieval.

A new unsupervised approach to the problem of Information Extraction by Text Segmentation (IETS) is proposed, implemented and evaluated herein. The authors’ approach relies on information available on pre-existing data to learn how to associate segments in the input string with attributes of a given...