Extracting Well-defined Information From Conference Announcement Messages
When: Tuesday, 18th March, 1997
Time: 11:30am
Where: Room E6A357, Macquarie University
Abstract:
Conference announcements are distributed widely each day via electronic mail to the research and industrial community. These conferences inform researchers, academics and the industry about the research and development (R & D) work performed in a particular field of interest. There is a wealth of information contained in the multitude of conference announcements. The aim of this research is to build an application that attempts to extract essential and relevant information from conference announcements and to explore the technologies involved. A prototype conference announcement information extraction system using pattern-matching techniques, was designed, implemented and evaluated. In this talk I will present this prototype system, the results that were achieved and future work, focussed on improving the system using robust techniques.