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Machine Learning over Text & Images - Autumn School

Text Information Extraction

author: Kamal Nigam, Google
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0:00 Machine Learning for Information Extraction: An Overview
0:13 Example: A Problem
1:54 Example: A Solution
2:31 Job Openings: Category = Food Services Keyword = Baker Location = Continental U.S.
2:50 Extracting Job Openings from the Web
3:41 Potential Enabler of Faceted Search
4:28 Lots of Structured Information in Text
5:01 IE from Research Papers
6:00 What is Information Extraction?
8:28 What is Information Extraction?01
9:05 What is Information Extraction?02
9:58 What is Information Extraction?03
11:01 IE History
11:32 IE Posed as a Machine Learning Task
13:43 Good Features for Information Extraction
15:15 Good Features for Information Extraction01
15:50 Landscape of ML Techniques for IE:
16:53 Sliding Windows & Boundary Detection
17:00 Information Extraction by Sliding Windows
17:23 Information Extraction by Sliding Window01
17:35 Information Extraction by Sliding Window02
17:36 Information Extraction by Sliding Window03
17:42 Information Extraction with Sliding Windows
21:03 IE by Boundary Detection
21:19 IE by Boundary Detection01
21:24 IE by Boundary Detection02
21:25 IE by Boundary Detection03
21:35 IE by Boundary Detection04
21:59 BWI: Learning to detect boundaries
23:12 Problems with Sliding Windows and Boundary Finders
24:22 Finite State Machines
24:35 Hidden Markov Models
32:15 Generative Extraction with HMMs
36:00 HMM Example: “Nymble”
55:09 Sample IE Applications of CRFs
55:53 Examples of Recent CRF Research

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Reviews and comments:

Comment1 Dimitar Todorov, March 24, 2008 at 9:52 a.m.:

Great lecture.
Unfortunately the slides available for download are not the same as the ones used by Mr. Nigam. Otherwise I find the lecture very informing and well presented.
Thank You.


Comment2 Eric, June 3, 2008 at 1:58 a.m.:

Very informative. Thank you.


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