Information extraction from text and beyond

Publication date: 2012-01-01
Pages: 24 - 39
ISSN: 9781613504475
Publisher: IGI Global; Hershey, PA

Author:

Moens, Marie-Francine

Keywords:

Knowledge extraction, Text mining

Abstract:

In this chapter we define information extraction from text, describe common information extraction tasks and discuss current information extraction issues being the need to develop technologies that require a minimum of human supervision, to build systems that automatically acquire world knowledge, and to integrate their outputs into advanced information extraction systems. Current emerging research on extraction of narrative scenarios and complex concepts revives an old dream and opens a way to full natural language understanding.