Summary: Strategies for Lifelong Knowledge Extraction
from the Web
Michele Banko and Oren Etzioni
Turing Center
University of Washington
Computer Science and Engineering
Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195, USA
banko@cs.washington.edu, etzioni@cs.washington.edu
ABSTRACT
The increasing availability of electronic text has made it
possible to acquire information using a variety of tech-
niques that leverage the expertise of both humans and
machines. In particular, the field of Information Extrac-
tion (IE), in which knowledge is extracted automatically
from text, has shown promise for large-scale knowledge
acquisition.
While IE systems can uncover assertions about individ-
ual entities with an increasing level of sophistication,
text understanding ­ the formation of a coherent the-

Source: Anderson, Richard - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences