%0 Book Section %1 piskorski2013information %A Piskorski, Jakub %A Yangarber, Roman %B Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization %D 2013 %E Poibeau, Thierry %E Saggion, Horacio %E Piskorski, Jakub %E Yangarber, Roman %I Springer Berlin Heidelberg %K extraction information sota survey %P 23-49 %T Information Extraction: Past, Present and Future %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28569-1_2 %X In this chapter we present a brief overview of Information Extraction, which is an area of natural language processing that deals with finding factual information in free text. In formal terms,