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The World Wide Web contains a massive amount of information in unstructured natural language and obtaining valuable information from informally written Web documents is a major research challenge. One research focus is Open Information Extraction (OIE) aimed at developing relation-independent information extraction. Open Information Extraction systems seek to extract all potential relations from the text rather than extracting a few pre-defined relations. Existing Open Information Extraction systems have mainly focused on Web’s heterogeneity rather than the Web’s informality. The performance of the REVERB system, a state-of-the-art OIE system, drops dramatically as informality increases in Web documents.
This paper proposes a Hybrid Ripple-Down Rules based Open Information Extraction (Hybrid RDROIE) system, which uses RDR on top of a conventional OIE system. The Hybrid RDROIE system applies RDR’s incremental learning technique as an add-on to the state-of-the-art REVERB OIE system to correct the performance degradation of REVERB due to the Web’s informality in a domain of interest. With this wrapper approach, the baseline performance is that of the REVERB system with RDR correcting errors in a domain of interest. The Hybrid RDROIE system doubled REVERB’s performance in a domain of interest after two hours training.
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Kim, M.H., Compton, P. (2012). Improving Open Information Extraction for Informal Web Documents with Ripple-Down Rules. In: Richards, D., Kang, B.H. (eds) Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems. PKAW 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7457. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32541-0_14
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