Information Extraction: Algorithms and Prospects in a Retrieval Context

by Marie-Francine Moens

This book covers content recognition in text, elaborating on past and current most successful algorithms and their application in a variety of settings: news filtering, mining of biomedical text, intelligence gathering, competitive intelligence, legal information searching, and processing of informal text. Today, there is considerable interest in integrating the results of information extraction in retrieval systems, because of the demand for search engines that return precise answers to flexible information queries.

260 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006