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= Welcome to the Wiki of the seminar '''Information Extraction''' in the winter semester 2013 / 2014 =

This seminar will be given by [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/haussmann|Elmar Haußmann]] and [[https://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/storandt|Sabine Storandt]], from the chair of [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/bast|Hannah Bast]] (who will also attend the sessions).

Information Extraction is the task of extracting (structured) information from natural language text.
We will cover interesting topics in this area with a focus on current state-of-the-art systems. We will also cover the NLP background required for understanding.

Here is a tentative list of topics and systems (each of which will roughly explained in the first session): POS tagging, text chunking, entity recognition, semantic role labeling, syntax parsing, Textrunner, Knowitall, SRL-IE, Kraken, R2A2, PATTY, SOFIE, PROSPERA, NELL, Reverb, OLLIE, CSD-IE, ClausIE.
The topics and dates will be assigned in the first sessions.