Wu et al KDD 2008
Citation
Wu, F., Hoffmann, R. and Weld, D. 2008. Information Extraction from Wikipedia: Moving Down the Long Tail. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 731–739, ACM, New York.
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Summary
This paper introduces three techniques for increasing recall of information extraction from Wikipedia's classes with a small number of articles (the long tail of sparse classes): shrinkage over a refined ontology, retraining using open information extractors and supplementing results by extracting from the general Web. These techniques are used to improve the performance of a previously developed information extractor called Kylin.
When training the extractor of a sparse class, the first technique (shrinkage) works by aggregating data from its parent and children classes. The subsumption herarchy needed for this task comes from a previously developed system called KOG (Kylin Ontology Generator).
Experimental results
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This paper improves Kylin, a self-supervised information extractor first described in Wu and Weld CIKM 2007. The shrinkage technique uses a cleanly-structured ontology, the output of KOG, a system presented in Wu and Weld WWW 2008. The retraining technique uses TextRunner, an open information extractor described in Banko et al IJCAI 2007.
