Project Data and Information

• General Information:
  • Project Description
  • Info on Final Evaluation, In-class Presentations, and Project Report (new!)

• Data:
  • Sample Input File
  • Development Set Texts (gzipped tar file)
  • Development Set Answer Key Templates (gzipped tar file) (new - misspellings fixed!)
  • Test Set #1 Input File
  • Test Set #1 Answer Keys File
  • Test Set #1 Texts (gzipped tar file) (new!)
  • Test Set #1 Answer Key Templates (gzipped tar file) (new - misspellings fixed!)
  • Test Set #2 Input File
  • Test Set #2 Answer Keys File
  • Test Set #2 Texts (gzipped tar file)
  • Test Set #2 Answer Key Templates (gzipped tar file)

• Scoring Program:
  • Scoring Program (new and improved!)
  • Sample Response Templates
  • Sample Answer Key Templates

• Handout:
  • Information Extraction as a Stepping Stone toward Story Understanding , Riloff, in Understanding Language Understanding: Computational Models of Reading, 1999

• Sample IE Publications:
  (These are some additional papers about IE that you might find interesting and useful -- there are plenty more out there on the web as well, these are just a few!)
  • Relational Learning of Pattern-Match Rules for Information Extraction , Califf and Mooney, AAAI-99
  • Adaptive Information Extraction from Text by Rule Induction and Generalisation, Ciravegna, IJCAI-01
  • Toward General-Purpose Learning for Information Extraction, Freitag, ACL-98
  • FASTUS: A Cascaded Finite-State Transducer for Extracting Information from Natural-Language Text , Hobbs et al., in Finite State Devices for Natural Language Processing, 1996
  • Information Extraction for Enhanced Access to Disease Outbreak Reports, Grishman, Huttunen, and Yangarber, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2002
  • Learning Information Extraction Rules from Semi-Structured and Free Text, Soderland, Machine Learning Journal, 1999
  • On-Demand Information Extraction , Sekine, ACL-06
  • Automatic Acquisition of Domain Knowledge for Information Extraction,, Yangarber, Grishman, Tapanainen, Huttunen, COLING-00