Open information extraction from the web

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by Michele Banko , Michael J Cafarella , Stephen Soderland , Matt Broadhead , Oren Etzioni

Venue:	IN IJCAI
Citations:	373 - 39 self

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Banko07openinformation,
    author = {Michele Banko and Michael J Cafarella and Stephen Soderland and Matt Broadhead and Oren Etzioni},
    title = {Open information extraction from the web},
    booktitle = {IN IJCAI},
    year = {2007},
    pages = {2670--2676},
    publisher = {}
}

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Abstract

Traditionally, Information Extraction (IE) has focused on satisfying precise, narrow, pre-specified requests from small homogeneous corpora (e.g., extract the location and time of seminars from a set of announcements). Shifting to a new domain requires the user to name the target relations and to manually create new extraction rules or hand-tag new training examples. This manual labor scales linearly with the number of target relations. This paper introduces Open IE (OIE), a new extraction paradigm where the system makes a single data-driven pass over its corpus and extracts a large set of relational tuples without requiring any human input. The paper also introduces TEXTRUNNER, a fully implemented, highly scalable OIE system where the tuples are assigned a probability and indexed to support efficient extraction and exploration via user queries. We report on experiments over a 9,000,000 Web page corpus that compare TEXTRUNNER with KNOWITALL, a state-of-the-art Web IE system. TEXTRUNNER achieves an error reduction of 33% on a comparable set of extractions. Furthermore, in the amount of time it takes KNOWITALL to perform extraction for a handful of pre-specified relations, TEXTRUNNER extracts a far broader set of facts reflecting orders of magnitude more relations, discovered on the fly. We report statistics on TEXTRUNNER’s 11,000,000 highest probability tuples, and show that they contain over 1,000,000 concrete facts and over 6,500,000 more abstract assertions.

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open information extraction target relation probability tuples web page corpus abstract assertion relational tuples information extraction single data-driven pas hand-tag new training example new extraction paradigm comparable set scalable oie system new extraction rule efficient extraction concrete fact pre-specified request state-of-the-art web ie system new domain open ie human input user query manual labor scale large set small homogeneous corpus pre-specified relation error reduction

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