An Information Extraction System and a Customization Tool

this paper isto identify instances of a particular class of eventsor relationships in a natural language text, andto extract the relevant argument of the event orrelationship. IE therefore involves the creation ofa structured representation (such as a data base)of selected information drawn from the text. So,the task of IE is both simpler and more tractablethan the more ambitious problem of general textunderstanding. Furthermore, it involves a reasonablemeasurement of performance and...