2000/11/02 by Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa
Computer Science · #cs.CL
published as Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2000), pp.488-495, Oct. 2000 · 8 pages, 2 Postscript figures
arxiv created 2000/11/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
In this paper, we propose a method to extract descriptions of technical terms from Web pages in order to utilize the World Wide Web as an encyclopedia. We use linguistic patterns and HTML text structures to extract text fragments containing term descriptions. We also use a language model to discard extraneous descriptions, and a clustering method to summarize resultant descriptions. We show the effectiveness of our method by way of experiments.