Introduction to Information Extraction

1. Introduction to Information Extraction Chia-Hui Chang Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan chia@csie.ncu.edu.tw

2. Problem Definition • Information Extraction (IE) is to identify relevant information from documents, pulling information from a variety of sources and aggregates it into a homogeneous form. Input  extractor structured output • The output template of the IE task • Several fields (slots) • Several instances of a field

3. Difficulties of IE tasks depends on … • Text type • From plain text to semi-structured Web pages • e.g. Wall Street Journal articles, or email message, HTML documents. • Domain • From financial news, or tourist information, to various language. • Scenario

4. Various IE Tasks • Free-text IE: • For MUC (Message Understanding Conference) • E.g. terrorist activities, corporate joint ventures • Semi-structured IE: • E.g.: meta-search engines, shopping agents, Bio-integration system

5. Types of IE from MUC • Named Entity recognition (NE) • Finds and classifies names, places, etc. • Coreference Resolution (CO) • Identifies identity relations between entities in texts. • Template Element construction (TE) • Adds descriptive information to NE results. • Scenario Template production (ST) • Fits TE results into specified event scenarios.

6. http://www.cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/grishman/NEtask20.book_3.html Named Entity Recognition

7. Spanish: 93% Japanese: 92% Chinese: 84.51% NE Recognition (Cont.)

8. Coreference Resolution • Coreference resolution (CO) involves identifying identity relations between entities in texts. • For example, in Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well. • Tie “Yorick" with “him“. • The Sheffield system scored 51% recall and 71% precision. http://www.cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/grishman/COtask21.book_4.html

9. Adds description with named entities Sheffield system scores 71% Template Element Production

10. STs are the prototypical outputs of IE systems They tie together TE entities into event and relation descriptions. Performance for Sheffield: 49% Scenario Template Extraction http://www.cs.nyu.edu/cs/ faculty/grishman/ IEtask15.book_2.html

11. Example • The operational domains that user interests are centered around are drug enforcement, money laundering, organized crime, terrorism, …. 1. Input: texts dealing with drug enforcement, money laundering, organized crime, terrorism, and legislation; 2. NE: recognizes entities in those texts and assigns them to one of a number of categories drawn from the set of entities of interest (person, company, . . . ); 3. TE: associates certain types of descriptive information with these entities, e.g. the location of companies; 4. ST: identifies a set (relatively small to begin with) of events of interest by tying entities together into event relations.

12. Example Text

13. Output Example (NE, TE)

14. Output (STs)

15. Another IE Example • Corporate Management Changes • Purpose • which positions in which organizations are changing hands? • who is leaving a position and where the person is going to? • who is appointed to a position and where the person is coming from? • the locations and types of the organizations involved in the succession events; • the names and titles of the persons involved in the succession events • http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~lindek/ie-ex.htm

16. Input Text President Clinton nominated John Rollwagen, the chairman and CEO of Cray Research Inc., as the No. 2 Commerce Department official. Mr. Rollwagen said he wants to push the Clinton administration to aggressively confront U.S. trading partners such as Japan to open their markets, particularly for high-tech industries. In a letter sent throughout the Eagan, Minn.-based company on Friday, Mr. Rollwagen warned: "Whether we like it or not, our country is in an economic war; and we are at a key turning point in that war." ...... Cray said it has appointed John F. Carlson, its president and chief operating officer, to succeed him. ......

17. Corporate Management Database Person Organization Position Transition John Rollwagen Cray Research Inc. chairman out John Rollwagen Cray Research Inc. CEO out John F. Carlson Cray Research Inc. chairman in John F. Carlson Cray Research Inc. CEO in Organization Database Name Location Alias Type Cray Research Inc. Eagan, Minn. Cray COMPANY Commerce Department GOVERNMENT Extraction Result

18. MUC • Data Set for • MET2http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/894.02/related_projects/muc/met2/met2package.tar.gz • MUC3&4http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/894.02/related_projects/muc/muc_data/muc34.tar.gz • MUC6&7 from LDChttp://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ • MUC-6: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/grishman/muc6.html • MUC-7 http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/894.02/related_projects/muc/ proceedings/muc_7_toc.html

19. Evaluation Precision= Recall= Design Methodology for Text IE Natural Language Processing Machine Learning Summary # of correctly extracted fields # of extracted fields # of correctly extracted fields # of fields to be extracted

20. IE from Web pages • Output Template: k-tuple • Multiple instances of a field • Missing data

21. Web data extraction • Various Web pages • Multiple-record page extraction • One-record (singular) page extraction

22. Multiple-record page extraction

23. One-record (singular) page extraction

24. Applications • Information integration • Meta Search Engines • Shopping agents • Travel agents

25. Human & Computer Users • User Services: • Query • Monitor • Update Information Integration Service Mediator Mediator Mediator Wrapper Wrapper SQL ORB Text, Images/Video, Spreadsheets Hierarchical & Network Databases Object & Knowledge Bases Relational Databases Heterogeneous Data Sources Information Integration Systems Abstracted Information Agent/Module Coordination Mediation Semantic Integration Translation and Wrapping Unprocessed, Unintegrated Details

26. Web Wrappers • What is a wrapper? • An extracting program to extract desired information from Web pages. Web pages → wrapper→ Structure Info. • Web wrappers wrap... • “Query-able’’ or “Search-able’’ Web sites • Web pages with large itemized lists

27. Summary • Evaluation • Precision= • Recall= • Methodology for Web IE • Programming package • Machine Learning • Pattern Mining # of correctly extracted records # of extracted records # of correctly extracted records # of records to be extracted

28. Type III: News Group IE • Example: Computer-Related Jobs

29. Output Template • Between free-text IE and semi-structured IE • [CaliffRapier 99]

30. Wrapper Induction Systems • Wrapper induction (WI) or information extraction (IE) systems are software that are designed to generate wrappers. • Taxonomy of Web IE systems by • Task domain • free text vs semi-structured pages • Automation degree • supervised vs unsupervised • Techniques applied • Machine learning vs pattern mining

31. Task Domain • Document type • Extraction level • Field-level, record-level, page-level • Extraction target variation • Missing Attributes • Multi-valued Attributes • Multi-order attribute Permutations • Nested Data Objects • Template variation • Various Templates for an attribute • Common Templates for various attributes • Untokenized Attributes

32. Automation Degree • Page-fetching Support • Annotation Requirement • Output Support • API Support

33. Techniques Applied • Scan passes • Extraction rule types • Learning algorithms • Tokenization schemes • Feature used

34. Conclusion • Define the IE problem • Specify the input: training example • with annotation, or • without annotation • Depict the extraction rule • Use necessary background knowledge

35. References • *H. Cunningham, Information Extraction – a User Guide, http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk • *MUC-6, http://www.cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/ grishman/muc6.html • *I. Muslea, Extraction Patterns for Information Extraction Tasks: A Survey, The AAAI-99 Workshop on Machine Learning for Information Extraction. • Califf, Relational Learning of Pattern-Matching Rule for Information Extraction, AAAI-99.