Rbalasub writeup of Brin

A review of Brin_1999_extracting_patterns_and_relations_from_the_world_wide_web by user:rbalasub

This is a key paper that deals with large scale information extraction. Though the technique is fairly simple, it set the path for doing web-scale relation extraction. The strength of the paper is in the strong experimentation. The author crafts features carefully (referred to as contexts) to keep precision high which is always a concern with extraction from large corpora.