A new mode of production has emerged in the areas of software and content production. This mode, which is based on sharing and cooperation, has spawned whole mature operating systems such as GNU/Linux as well as innumerable other free software applications; giant knowledge bases such as the Wikipedia; a large free culture movement; and a new, wholly decentralized medium for spreading, analyzing and discussing news and knowledge, the so-called blogosphere. So far, this new mode of production-peer production-has been limited to certain niches of production, such as information goods. This book...
A new mode of production has emerged in the areas of software and content production. This mode, which is based on sharing and cooperation, has spawne...
Most of the information stored in digital form is hidden in natural language texts. The purpose of Information Extraction (IE) is to find desired pieces of information in unstructured or weakly structured texts and store them in a form that is suitable for automatic querying and processing. This book presents a innovative approach to statistical information extraction. It introduces a new algorithm which supports functionality not available in previous IE systems, such as interactive incremental training to reduce the human training effort. The system also utilizes new sources of information,...
Most of the information stored in digital form is hidden in natural language texts. The purpose of Information Extraction (IE) is to find desired piec...