Download or read book Information Extraction: Algorithms and Prospects in a Retrieval Context written by Marie-Francine Moens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers content recognition in text, elaborating on past and current most successful algorithms and their application in a variety of settings: news filtering, mining of biomedical text, intelligence gathering, competitive intelligence, legal information searching, and processing of informal text. Today, there is considerable interest in integrating the results of information extraction in retrieval systems, because of the demand for search engines that return precise answers to flexible information queries.