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Weakly-supervised discovery of named entities using web search queries

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CIKM '07: Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management

Pages 683 - 690

https://doi.org/10.1145/1321440.1321536

Published: 06 November 2007 Publication History

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A seed-based framework for textual information extraction allows for weakly supervised extraction of named entities from anonymized Web search queries. The extraction is guided by a small set of seed named entities, without any need for handcrafted extraction patterns or domain-specific knowledge, allowing for the acquisition of named entities pertaining to various classes of interest to Web search users. Inherently noisy search queries are shown to be a highly valuable, albeit little explored, resource for Web-based named entity discovery.

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Weakly-supervised discovery of named entities using web search queries
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2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
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CIKM '07: Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management

November 2007

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ISBN:9781595938039

DOI:10.1145/1321440

Co-chair:
Alberto H. F. Laender,
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Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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