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We propose an attribute value extraction method based on analysing snippets from a search engine. First, a pattern based detector is applied to locate the candidate attribute values in snippets. Then a classifier is used to predict whether a candidate value is correct. To train such a classifier, only very few annotated <entity, attribute, value> triples are needed, and sufficient training data can be generated automatically by matching these triples back to snippets and titles. Finally, as a correct value may appear in multiple snippets, to exploit such redundant information, all the individual predictions are assembled together by voting. Experiments on both Chinese and English corpora in the celebrity domain demonstrate the effectiveness of our method: with only 15 annotated <entity, attribute, value> triples, 7 of 12 attributes’ precisions are over 85%; Compared to a state-of-the-art method, 11 of 12 attributes have improvements.
This paper is supported by NSFC Project 61075067 and National Key Technology R&D Program (No: 2011BAH10B04-03).
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Zhang, X., Ge, T., Sui, Z. (2013). Learning to Extract Attribute Values from a Search Engine with Few Examples. In: Sun, M., Zhang, M., Lin, D., Wang, H. (eds) Chinese Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data. NLP-NABD CCL 2013 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8202. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41491-6_15
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