Class Meeting for 10-707 9/8/2010

This is one of the class meetings on the schedule for the course Information Extraction 10-707 in Fall 2010.

Introduction, History, and Techniques for Named Entity Recognition (NER)

• Slides

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.

Assignment

• Go to http://malt/mw [this link is incorrect?] and create an account for yourself (use andrew id)
• Go to your user page and add
  • Your real name & a link to your home page
  • Who you are and what you hope to get out of the class (Let me know if you’re just auditing)
  • Any special skills you have, research interests that you have, related projects you have been or might be working on, etc.
• Create a link to this page in the list below:

People In the Class

• William Cohen