Corpora: learning regular expression patterns

[Mary Califf]

Stephen Soderland's system WHISK applies learns regular expressions for
information extraction.  It's implemented in Perl.  He's published an
article on it in Machine Learning and had a paper at KDD.  You could get
more information from either of those sources.

Mary Elaine Califf

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Chapman, Wendy wrote:

> Dear list members:
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> I would like to do some work on learning regular expression patterns from
> text. Brill's paper "Pattern-based disambiguation for natural language
> processing" in the EMNLP-VLC 2000 proceedings describes an interesting
> algorithm. Has anybody implemented Brill's or other regular expression
> learning algorithms? Any information on what types of
> ambiguities people have applied regular expression learning to? Is there by
> any chance an
> available implementation?
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> Wendy Chapman
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