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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]], assisted by [[https://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/storandt|Sabine Storandt]]. 

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 but will also cover the NLP basics required for understanding them.
Here is a tentative list of topics (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, NELL, Reverb, OLLIE, ClausIE.
The topics and dates will be assigned in the first sessions.