Class Meeting for 10-707 9/9/2009
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This is one of the class meetings on the schedule for the course Information Extraction 10-707 in Fall 2009.
Introduction, History, and Techniques for Named Entity Recognition (NER)
Required Readings
- Information Extraction, S. Sarawagi, FnT Databases, 1(3), 2008. A survey of information extraction work, aimed mainly at a DB/IR audience.
- Information Extraction: Distilling Structured Data from Unstructured Text, McCallum, ACM Queue 2005. A shorter survey, aimed at a more general audience.
Optional Readings
- The stages of event extraction, D. Ahn, Proceedings of the Workshop on Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events, 2006. A case study, describing a complex, multi-stage IE system.
