@incollection{piskorski2013information, abstract = {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, }, author = {Piskorski, Jakub and Yangarber, Roman}, booktitle = {Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-28569-1_2}, editor = {Poibeau, Thierry and Saggion, Horacio and Piskorski, Jakub and Yangarber, Roman}, interhash = {276145faeb3b45461f09f6ae5aabef5e}, intrahash = {55c1de993e15515d35b68a512088d607}, isbn = {978-3-642-28568-4}, language = {English}, pages = {23-49}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, series = {Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing}, title = {Information Extraction: Past, Present and Future}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28569-1_2}, year = 2013 } @article{crestani1997spreading, abstract = {This paper surveys the use of Spreading Activation techniques onSemantic Networks in Associative Information Retrieval. The majorSpreading Activation models are presented and their applications toIR is surveyed. A number of works in this area are criticallyanalyzed in order to study the relevance of Spreading Activation forassociative IR. ER -}, author = {Crestani, F.}, interhash = {3dfe398bb588335ffc562088d5a509de}, intrahash = {c26c16e0a8036000b788fada656f59dd}, journal = {Artificial Intelligence Review}, month = {December}, number = 6, pages = {453--482}, title = {Application of Spreading Activation Techniques in Information Retrieval}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1006569829653}, volume = 11, year = 1997 } @article{1159300, address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA}, author = {Kayed, Mohammed and Shaalan, Khaled F.}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2006.152}, interhash = {3180af7192c7535d5155630c846eee80}, intrahash = {234a08916f1fd77df13ea731622333f7}, issn = {1041-4347}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering}, note = {Member-Chia-Hui Chang and Member-Moheb Ramzy Girgis}, number = 10, pages = {1411--1428}, publisher = {IEEE Educational Activities Department}, title = {A Survey of Web Information Extraction Systems}, volume = 18, year = 2006 }