Large-Scale Pattern-Based Information Extraction from the World Wide Web

Extracting information from text is the task of obtaining structured, machineprocessable facts from information that is mentioned in an unstructured manner. It thus allows systems to automatically aggregate information for further analysis, efficient retrieval, automatic validation, or appropriate visualization. Information Extraction systems require a model that describes how to identify relevant target information in texts. These models need to be adapted to the exact nature of the targ.