information extraction from the world wide web

Information Extractionfrom the

World Wide Web

William W. CohenCarnegie Mellon University

Andrew McCallumUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

KDD 2003

Example: The Problem

Martin Baker, a person

Genomics job

Employers job posting form

Example: A Solution

Extracting Job Openings from the Web

foodscience.com-Job2

JobTitle: Ice Cream Guru

Employer: foodscience.com

JobCategory: Travel/Hospitality

JobFunction: Food Services

JobLocation: Upper Midwest

Contact Phone: 800-488-2611

DateExtracted: January 8, 2001

Source: www.foodscience.com/jobs_midwest.html

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Data Mining the Extracted Job Information

IE from Research Papers

IE fromChinese Documents regarding Weather

Chinese Academy of Sciences

200k+ documentsseveral millennia old

- Qing Dynasty Archives- memos- newspaper articles- diaries

IE from SEC Filings

This filing covers the period from December 1996 to September 1997.

ENRON GLOBAL POWER & PIPELINES L.L.C. CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE AMOUNTS)

SEPTEMBER 30, DECEMBER 31, 1997 1996 ------------- ------------ (UNAUDITED)ASSETSCurrent Assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 54,262 $ 24,582 Accounts receivable 8,473 6,301 Current portion of notes receivable 1,470 1,394 Other current assets 336 404 -------- -------- Total Current Assets 71,730 32,681 -------- --------Investments in to Unconsolidated Subsidiaries 286,340 298,530Notes Receivable 16,059 12,111 -------- -------- Total Assets $374,408 $343,843 ======== ========LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITYCurrent Liabilities Accounts payable $ 13,461 $ 11,277 Accrued taxes 1,910 1,488 -------- -------- Total Current Liabilities 15,371 49,348 -------- --------Deferred Income Taxes 525 4,301

The U.S. energy markets in 1997 were subject to significant fluctuation

Data mine these reports for- suspicious behavior, - to better understand what is normal.

What is “Information Extraction”

Filling slots in a database from sub-segments of text.As a task:

October 14, 2002, 4:00 a.m. PT

For years, Microsoft Corporation CEO Bill Gates railed against the economic philosophy of open-source software with Orwellian fervor, denouncing its communal licensing as a "cancer" that stifled technological innovation.

Today, Microsoft claims to "love" the open-source concept, by which software code is made public to encourage improvement and development by outside programmers. Gates himself says Microsoft will gladly disclose its crown jewels--the coveted code behind the Windows operating system--to select customers.

"We can be open source. We love the concept of shared source," said Bill Veghte, a Microsoft VP. "That's a super-important shift for us in terms of code access.“

Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, countered saying…

NAME TITLE ORGANIZATION


Filling slots in a database from sub-segments of text.As a task:

October 14, 2002, 4:00 a.m. PT





NAME TITLE ORGANIZATIONBill Gates CEO MicrosoftBill Veghte VP MicrosoftRichard Stallman founder Free Soft..

IE


Information Extraction = segmentation + classification + clustering + association

As a familyof techniques:

October 14, 2002, 4:00 a.m. PT





Microsoft CorporationCEOBill GatesMicrosoftGatesMicrosoftBill VeghteMicrosoftVPRichard StallmanfounderFree Software Foundation


Information Extraction = segmentation + classification + association + clustering


October 14, 2002, 4:00 a.m. PT





Microsoft CorporationCEOBill GatesMicrosoftGatesMicrosoftBill VeghteMicrosoftVPRichard StallmanfounderFree Software Foundation


Information Extraction = segmentation + classification + association + clustering


October 14, 2002, 4:00 a.m. PT





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IE in Context

Create ontology

SegmentClassifyAssociateCluster

Load DB

Spider

Query,Search

Data mine

IE

Documentcollection

Database

Filter by relevance

Label training data

Train extraction models

Why IE from the Web?

• Science– Grand old dream of AI: Build large KB* and reason with it.

IE from the Web enables the creation of this KB.– IE from the Web is a complex problem that inspires new

advances in machine learning.

• Profit– Many companies interested in leveraging data currently

“locked in unstructured text on the Web”.– Not yet a monopolistic winner in this space.

• Fun!– Build tools that we researchers like to use ourselves:

Cora & CiteSeer, MRQE.com, FAQFinder,…– See our work get used by the general public.

* KB = “Knowledge Base”

Tutorial Outline

• IE History• Landscape of problems and solutions• Parade of models for segmenting/classifying:

– Sliding window– Boundary finding– Finite state machines– Trees

• Overview of related problems and solutions– Association, Clustering– Integration with Data Mining

• Where to go from here

15 min break

IE HistoryPre-Web• Mostly news articles

– De Jong’s FRUMP [1982]• Hand-built system to fill Schank-style “scripts” from news wire

– Message Understanding Conference (MUC) DARPA [’87-’95], TIPSTER [’92-’96]

• Most early work dominated by hand-built models– E.g. SRI’s FASTUS, hand-built FSMs.– But by 1990’s, some machine learning: Lehnert, Cardie, Grishman and

then HMMs: Elkan [Leek ’97], BBN [Bikel et al ’98]

Web• AAAI ’94 Spring Symposium on “Software Agents”

– Much discussion of ML applied to Web. Maes, Mitchell, Etzioni.

• Tom Mitchell’s WebKB, ‘96– Build KB’s from the Web.

• Wrapper Induction– Initially hand-build, then ML: [Soderland ’96], [Kushmeric ’97],…

www.apple.com/retail

What makes IE from the Web Different?Less grammar, but more formatting & linking

The directory structure, link structure, formatting & layout of the Web is its own new grammar.

Apple to Open Its First Retail Storein New York City

MACWORLD EXPO, NEW YORK--July 17, 2002--Apple's first retail store in New York City will open in Manhattan's SoHo district on Thursday, July 18 at 8:00 a.m. EDT. The SoHo store will be Apple's largest retail store to date and is a stunning example of Apple's commitment to offering customers the world's best computer shopping experience.

"Fourteen months after opening our first retail store, our 31 stores are attracting over 100,000 visitors each week," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We hope our SoHo store will surprise and delight both Mac and PC users who want to see everything the Mac can do to enhance their digital lifestyles."

www.apple.com/retail/soho

www.apple.com/retail/soho/theatre.html

Newswire Web

Landscape of IE Tasks (1/4):Pattern Feature Domain

Text paragraphswithout formatting

Grammatical sentencesand some formatting & links

Non-grammatical snippets,rich formatting & links Tables

Astro Teller is the CEO and co-founder of BodyMedia. Astro holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was inducted as a national Hertz fellow. His M.S. in symbolic and heuristic computation and B.S. in computer science are from Stanford University. His work in science, literature and business has appeared in international media from the New York Times to CNN to NPR.

Landscape of IE Tasks (2/4):Pattern Scope

Web site specific Genre specific Wide, non-specific

Amazon.com Book Pages Resumes University Names

Formatting Layout Language

Landscape of IE Tasks (3/4):Pattern Complexity

Closed set

He was born in Alabama…

Regular set

Phone: (413) 545-1323

Complex pattern

University of ArkansasP.O. Box 140Hope, AR 71802

…was among the six houses sold by Hope Feldman that year.

Ambiguous patterns,needing context andmany sources of evidence

The CALD main office can be reached at 412-268-1299

The big Wyoming sky…

U.S. states U.S. phone numbers

U.S. postal addresses

Person names

Headquarters:1128 Main Street, 4th FloorCincinnati, Ohio 45210

Pawel Opalinski, SoftwareEngineer at WhizBang Labs.

E.g. word patterns:

Landscape of IE Tasks (4/4):Pattern Combinations

Single entity

Person: Jack Welch

Binary relationship

Relation: Person-TitlePerson: Jack WelchTitle: CEO

N-ary record

“Named entity” extraction

Jack Welch will retire as CEO of General Electric tomorrow. The top role at the Connecticut company will be filled by Jeffrey Immelt.

Relation: Company-LocationCompany: General ElectricLocation: Connecticut

Relation: SuccessionCompany: General ElectricTitle: CEOOut: Jack WelshIn: Jeffrey Immelt

Person: Jeffrey Immelt

Location: Connecticut

Evaluation of Single Entity Extraction

Michael Kearns and Sebastian Seung will start Monday’s tutorial, followed by Richard M. Karpe and Martin Cooke.TRUTH:

PRED:

Precision = = # correctly predicted segments 2

# predicted segments 6

Michael Kearns and Sebastian Seung will start Monday’s tutorial, followed by Richard M. Karpe and Martin Cooke.

Recall = = # correctly predicted segments 2

# true segments 4

F1 = Harmonic mean of Precision & Recall = ((1/P) + (1/R)) / 2

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State of the Art Performance

• Named entity recognition– Person, Location, Organization, …– F1 in high 80’s or low- to mid-90’s

• Binary relation extraction– Contained-in (Location1, Location2)

Member-of (Person1, Organization1)– F1 in 60’s or 70’s or 80’s

• Wrapper induction– Extremely accurate performance obtainable– Human effort (~30min) required on each site

Landscape of IE Techniques (1/1):Models

Any of these models can be used to capture words, formatting or both.

Lexicons

AlabamaAlaska…WisconsinWyoming

Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky.

member?

Classify Pre-segmentedCandidates


Classifier

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…and beyond

Sliding Window


Classifier

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Try alternatewindow sizes:

Boundary Models


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Landscape:Focus of this Tutorial

Pattern complexity

Pattern feature domain

Pattern scope

Pattern combinations

Models

closed set regular complex ambiguous

words words + formatting formatting

site-specific genre-specific general

entity binary n-ary

lexicon regex window boundary FSM CFG

Sliding Windows

Extraction by Sliding Window

GRAND CHALLENGES FOR MACHINE LEARNING

Jaime Carbonell School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

3:30 pm 7500 Wean Hall

Machine learning has evolved from obscurity in the 1970s into a vibrant and popular discipline in artificial intelligence during the 1980s and 1990s. As a result of its success and growth, machine learning is evolving into a collection of related disciplines: inductive concept acquisition, analytic learning in problem solving (e.g. analogy, explanation-based learning), learning theory (e.g. PAC learning), genetic algorithms, connectionist learning, hybrid systems, and so on.

CMU UseNet Seminar Announcement

E.g.Looking forseminarlocation

A “Naïve Bayes” Sliding Window Model[Freitag 1997]

00 : pm Place : Wean Hall Rm 5409 Speaker : Sebastian Thrunw t-m w t-1 w t w t+n w t+n+1 w t+n+m

prefix contents suffix

Other examples of sliding window: [Baluja et al 2000](decision tree over individual words & their context)

If P(“Wean Hall Rm 5409” = LOCATION) is above some threshold, extract it.

… …

Estimate Pr(LOCATION|window) using Bayes rule

Try all “reasonable” windows (vary length, position)

Assume independence for length, prefix words, suffix words, content words

Estimate from data quantities like: Pr(“Place” in prefix|LOCATION)

“Naïve Bayes” Sliding Window Results

GRAND CHALLENGES FOR MACHINE LEARNING

Jaime Carbonell School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

3:30 pm 7500 Wean Hall

Machine learning has evolved from obscurity in the 1970s into a vibrant and popular discipline in artificial intelligence during the 1980s and 1990s. As a result of its success and growth, machine learning is evolving into a collection of related disciplines: inductive concept acquisition, analytic learning in problem solving (e.g. analogy, explanation-based learning), learning theory (e.g. PAC learning), genetic algorithms, connectionist learning, hybrid systems, and so on.

Domain: CMU UseNet Seminar Announcements

Field F1 Person Name: 30%Location: 61%Start Time: 98%

SRV: a realistic sliding-window-classifier IE system

• What windows to consider?– all windows containing as many tokens as the shortest

example, but no more tokens than the longest example

• How to represent a classifier? It might:– Restrict the length of window;– Restrict the vocabulary or formatting used

before/after/inside window;– Restrict the relative order of tokens;– Etc…

<title>Course Information for CS213</title>

<h1>CS 213 C++ Programming</h1>

[Frietag AAAI ‘98]

SRV: a rule-learner for sliding-window classification

Rule learning: greedily add conditions to rules, rules to rule set

Search metric: SRV algorithm greedily adds conditions to maximize “information gain”

To prevent overfitting:

rules are built on 2/3 of data, then their false positive rate is estimated on the 1/3 holdout set.

Candidate conditions: …“Two tokens, one a 3-char token, starting just after the title”


<h1>CS 213 C++ Programming</h1>courseNumber(X) :-

tokenLength(X,=,2), every(X, inTitle, false), some(X, A, <previousToken>, inTitle, true),some(X, B, <>, tripleton, true)


• Primitive predicates used by SRV:– token(X,W), allLowerCase(W), numerical(W), …– nextToken(W,U), previousToken(W,V)

• HTML-specific predicates:– inTitleTag(W), inH1Tag(W), inEmTag(W),…– emphasized(W) = “inEmTag(W) or inBTag(W) or …”– tableNextCol(W,U) = “U is some token in the column

after the column W is in”– tablePreviousCol(W,V), tableRowHeader(W,T),…


• Non-primitive “conditions” used by SRV:– every(+X, f, c) = for all W in X : f(W)=c

– some(+X, W, <f1,…,fk>, g, c)= exists W: g(fk(…(f1(W)…))=c

– tokenLength(+X, relop, c):– position(+W,direction,relop, c):

• e.g., tokenLength(X,>,4), position(W,fromEnd,<,2)

courseNumber(X) :- tokenLength(X,=,2), every(X, inTitle, false), some(X, A, <previousToken>, inTitle, true),some(X, B, <>. tripleton, true)

Non-primitive conditions make greedy search easier

Rapier: an alternative approach

A bottom-up rule learner:

initialize RULES to be one rule per example;

repeat {

randomly pick N pairs of rules (Ri,Rj);

let {G1…,GN} be the consistent pairwise generalizations;

let G* = Gi that optimizes “compression”

let RULES = RULES + {G*} – {R’: covers(G*,R’)}

}

where compression(G,RULES) = size of RULES- {R’: covers(G,R’)} and “covers(G,R)” means every example matching G matches R

[Califf & Mooney, AAAI ‘99]


<h1>CS 213 C++ Programming</h1> …

<title>Syllabus and meeting times for Eng 214</title>

<h1>Eng 214 Software Engineering for Non-programmers </h1>…

courseNum(window1) :- token(window1,’CS’), doubleton(‘CS’), prevToken(‘CS’,’CS213’), inTitle(‘CS213’), nextTok(‘CS’,’213’), numeric(‘213’), tripleton(‘213’), nextTok(‘213’,’C++’), tripleton(‘C++’), ….

courseNum(window2) :- token(window2,’Eng’), tripleton(‘Eng’), prevToken(‘Eng’,’214’), inTitle(‘214’), nextTok(‘Eng’,’214’), numeric(‘214’), tripleton(‘214’), nextTok(‘214’,’Software’), …

courseNum(X) :- token(X,A), prevToken(A, B), inTitle(B), nextTok(A,C)), numeric(C), tripleton(C), nextTok(C,D), …

Common conditions carried over to generalization

Differences dropped

Rapier: an alternative approach

- Combines top-down and bottom-up learning- Bottom-up to find common restrictions on content- Top-down greedy addition of restrictions on context

- Use of part-of-speech and semantic features (from WORDNET).

- Special “pattern-language” based on sequences of tokens, each of which satisfies one of a set of given constraints- < <tok2{‘ate’,’hit’},POS2{‘vb’}>, <tok2{‘the’}>, <POS2{‘nn’>>

Rapier: results – precision/recall

Rule-learning approaches to sliding-window classification: Summary

• SRV, Rapier, and WHISK [Soderland KDD ‘97]

– Representations for classifiers allow restriction of the relationships between tokens, etc

– Representations are carefully chosen subsets of even more powerful representations based on logic programming (ILP and Prolog)

– Use of these “heavyweight” representations is complicated, but seems to pay off in results

• Can simpler representations for classifiers work?

BWI: Learning to detect boundaries

• Another formulation: learn three probabilistic classifiers:– START(i) = Prob( position i starts a field)– END(j) = Prob( position j ends a field)– LEN(k) = Prob( an extracted field has length k)

• Then score a possible extraction (i,j) bySTART(i) * END(j) * LEN(j-i)

• LEN(k) is estimated from a histogram

[Freitag & Kushmerick, AAAI 2000]


• BWI uses boosting to find “detectors” for START and END

• Each weak detector has a BEFORE and AFTER pattern (on tokens before/after position i).

• Each “pattern” is a sequence of tokens and/or wildcards like: anyAlphabeticToken, anyToken, anyUpperCaseLetter, anyNumber, …

• Weak learner for “patterns” uses greedy search (+ lookahead) to repeatedly extend a pair of empty BEFORE,AFTER patterns


Field F1 Person Name: 30%Location: 61%Start Time: 98%

Problems with Sliding Windows and Boundary Finders

• Decisions in neighboring parts of the input are made independently from each other.

– Naïve Bayes Sliding Window may predict a “seminar end time” before the “seminar start time”.

– It is possible for two overlapping windows to both be above threshold.

– In a Boundary-Finding system, left boundaries are laid down independently from right boundaries, and their pairing happens as a separate step.

Finite State Machines

Hidden Markov Models

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IE with Hidden Markov Models

Yesterday Pedro Domingos spoke this example sentence.


Person name: Pedro Domingos

Given a sequence of observations:

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Find the most likely state sequence: (Viterbi)

Any words said to be generated by the designated “person name”state extract as a person name:

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HMM Example: “Nymble”

Other examples of shrinkage for HMMs in IE: [Freitag and McCallum ‘99]

Task: Named Entity Extraction

Train on ~500k words of news wire text.

Case Language F1 .Mixed English 93%Upper English 91%Mixed Spanish 90%

[Bikel, et al 1998], [BBN “IdentiFinder”]

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Problems with Richer Representationand a Joint Model

These arbitrary features are not independent.– Multiple levels of granularity (chars, words, phrases)

– Multiple dependent modalities (words, formatting, layout)

– Past & future

Two choices:

Model the dependencies.Each state would have its own Bayes Net. But we are already starved for training data!

Ignore the dependencies.This causes “over-counting” of evidence (ala naïve Bayes). Big problem when combining evidence, as in Viterbi!

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– Can examine features, but not responsible for generating them.

– Don’t have to explicitly model their dependencies.

– Don’t “waste modeling effort” trying to generate what we are given at test time anyway.

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Conditional Finite State Sequence Models

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• State means only “state of process”, vs“state of process” and “observational history I’m keeping”

Person name Extraction [McCallum 2001, unpublished]

Person name Extraction

Features in Experiment

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Character n-gram classifier says string is a person name (80% accurate)

In stopword list(the, of, their, etc)

In honorific list(Mr, Mrs, Dr, Sen, etc)

In person suffix list(Jr, Sr, PhD, etc)

In name particle list (de, la, van, der, etc)

In Census lastname list;segmented by P(name)

In Census firstname list;segmented by P(name)

In locations lists(states, cities, countries)

In company name list(“J. C. Penny”)

In list of company suffixes(Inc, & Associates, Foundation)

Hand-built FSM person-name extractor says yes, (prec/recall ~ 30/95)

Conjunctions of all previous feature pairs, evaluated at the current time step.

Conjunctions of all previous feature pairs, evaluated at current step and one step ahead.

All previous features, evaluated two steps ahead.

All previous features, evaluated one step behind.

Total number of features = ~500k

Training and Testing

• Trained on 65k words from 85 pages, 30 different companies’ web sites.

• Training takes 4 hours on a 1 GHz Pentium.• Training precision/recall is 96% / 96%.

• Tested on different set of web pages with similar size characteristics.

• Testing precision is 92 – 95%, recall is 89 – 91%.

Table Extraction from Government ReportsCash receipts from marketings of milk during 1995 at $19.9 billion dollars, was slightly below 1994. Producer returns averaged $12.93 per hundredweight, $0.19 per hundredweight below 1994. Marketings totaled 154 billion pounds, 1 percent above 1994. Marketings include whole milk sold to plants and dealers as well as milk sold directly to consumers. An estimated 1.56 billion pounds of milk were used on farms where produced, 8 percent less than 1994. Calves were fed 78 percent of this milk with the remainder consumed in producer households. Milk Cows and Production of Milk and Milkfat: United States, 1993-95 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : : Production of Milk and Milkfat 2/ : Number :------------------------------------------------------- Year : of : Per Milk Cow : Percentage : Total :Milk Cows 1/:-------------------: of Fat in All :------------------ : : Milk : Milkfat : Milk Produced : Milk : Milkfat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : 1,000 Head --- Pounds --- Percent Million Pounds : 1993 : 9,589 15,704 575 3.66 150,582 5,514.4 1994 : 9,500 16,175 592 3.66 153,664 5,623.7 1995 : 9,461 16,451 602 3.66 155,644 5,694.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------1/ Average number during year, excluding heifers not yet fresh. 2/ Excludes milk sucked by calves.

Table Extraction from Government Reports

Cash receipts from marketings of milk during 1995 at $19.9 billion dollars, was

slightly below 1994. Producer returns averaged $12.93 per hundredweight,

$0.19 per hundredweight below 1994. Marketings totaled 154 billion pounds,

1 percent above 1994. Marketings include whole milk sold to plants and dealers

as well as milk sold directly to consumers.

An estimated 1.56 billion pounds of milk were used on farms where produced,

8 percent less than 1994. Calves were fed 78 percent of this milk with the

remainder consumed in producer households.

Milk Cows and Production of Milk and Milkfat:

United States, 1993-95

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1993 : 9,589 15,704 575 3.66 150,582 5,514.4

1994 : 9,500 16,175 592 3.66 153,664 5,623.7

1995 : 9,461 16,451 602 3.66 155,644 5,694.3

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1/ Average number during year, excluding heifers not yet fresh.

2/ Excludes milk sucked by calves.

CRFLabels:• Non-Table• Table Title• Table Header• Table Data Row• Table Section Data Row• Table Footnote• ... (12 in all)

[Pinto, McCallum, Wei, Croft, 2003]

Features:• Percentage of digit chars• Percentage of alpha chars• Indented• Contains 5+ consecutive spaces• Whitespace in this line aligns with prev.• ...• Conjunctions of all previous features,

time offset: {0,0}, {-1,0}, {0,1}, {1,2}.

100+ documents from www.fedstats.gov

Table Extraction Experimental Results

Line labels,percent correct

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Named Entity Recognition

CRICKET - MILLNS SIGNS FOR BOLAND

CAPE TOWN 1996-08-22

South African provincial side Boland said on Thursday they had signed Leicestershire fast bowler David Millns on a one year contract. Millns, who toured Australia with England A in 1992, replaces former England all-rounder Phillip DeFreitas as Boland's overseas professional.

Labels: Examples:

PER Yayuk BasukiInnocent Butare

ORG 3MKDPLeicestershire

LOC LeicestershireNirmal HridayThe Oval

MISC JavaBasque1,000 Lakes Rally

Reuters stories on international news Train on ~300k words

Automatically Induced Features

Index Feature

0 inside-noun-phrase (ot-1)

5 stopword (ot)

20 capitalized (ot+1)

75 word=the (ot)

100 in-person-lexicon (ot-1)

200 word=in (ot+2)

500 word=Republic (ot+1)

711 word=RBI (ot) & header=BASEBALL

1027 header=CRICKET (ot) & in-English-county-lexicon (ot)

1298 company-suffix-word (firstmentiont+2)

4040 location (ot) & POS=NNP (ot) & capitalized (ot) & stopword (ot-1)

4945 moderately-rare-first-name (ot-1) & very-common-last-name (ot)

4474 word=the (ot-2) & word=of (ot)

[McCallum 2003]

Named Entity Extraction Results

Method F1 # parameters

BBN's Identifinder, word features 79% ~500k

CRFs word features, 80% ~500kw/out Feature Induction

CRFs many features, 75% ~3 millionw/out Feature Induction

CRFs many candidate features 90% ~60kwith Feature Induction

[McCallum & Li, 2003]

Inducing State-Transition Structure[Chidlovskii, 2000]

K-reversiblegrammars

Structure learning forHMMs + IE[Seymore et al 1999][Frietag & McCallum 2000]

Limitations of Finite State Models

• Finite state models have a linear structure

• Web documents have a hierarchical structure– Are we suffering by not modeling this structure

more explicitly?

• How can one learn a hierarchical extraction model?

Tree-based Models

• Extracting from one web site– Use site-specific formatting information: e.g., “the JobTitle is a

bold-faced paragraph in column 2”– For large well-structured sites, like parsing a formal language

• Extracting from many web sites:– Need general solutions to entity extraction, grouping into records,

etc.– Primarily use content information– Must deal with a wide range of ways that users present data.– Analogous to parsing natural language

• Problems are complementary:– Site-dependent learning can collect training data for a site-

independent learner– Site-dependent learning can boost accuracy of a site-independent

learner on selected key sites

Learner

User gives first K positive—and thus many implicit negative examples

STALKER: Hierarchical boundary finding

• Main idea:– To train a hierarchical extractor, pose a series of

learning problems, one for each node in the hierarchy

– At each stage, extraction is simplified by knowing about the “context.”

[Muslea,Minton & Knoblock 99]

(BEFORE=null, AFTER=(Tutorial,Topics))

(BEFORE=null, AFTER=(Tutorials,and))

(BEFORE=null, AFTER=(<,li,>,))

(BEFORE=(:), AFTER=null)

Stalker: hierarchical decomposition of two web sites

Stalker: summary and results

• Rule format:– “landmark automata” format for rules which

extended BWI’s format• E.g.: <a>W. Cohen</a> CMU: Web IE </li>• BWI: BEFORE=(<, /, a,>, ANY, :)• STALKER: BEGIN = SkipTo(<, /, a, >), SkipTo(:)

• Top-down rule learning algorithm– Carefully chosen ordering between types of rule

specializations

• Very fast learning: e.g. 8 examples vs. 274• A lesson: we often control the IE training data!

Why low sample complexity is important in “wrapper learning”

At training time, only four examples are available—but one would like to generalize to future pages as well…

“Wrapster”: a hybrid approach to representing wrappers

• Common representations for web pages include:– a rendered image

– a DOM tree (tree of HTML markup & text)• gives some of the power of hierarchical decomposition

– a sequence of tokens

– a bag of words, a sequence of characters, a node in a directed graph, . . .

• Questions: – How can we engineer a system to generalize quickly?

– How can we explore representational choices easily?

[Cohen,Jensen&Hurst WWW02]

Example Wrapster predicate

http://wasBang.org/aboutus.html

WasBang.com contact info:

Currently we have offices in two locations:– Pittsburgh, PA

– Provo, UT

html

headbody

pp

ul

li li

a a

“Pittsburgh, PA” “Provo, UT”

“WasBang.com .. info:”

“Currently..”

…

Example Wrapster predicate

Example:p(s1,s2) iff s2 are the tokens

below an li node inside a ul node inside s1.

EXECUTE(p,s1) extracts

– “Pittsburgh, PA”

– “Provo, UT”

http://wasBang.org/aboutus.html

WasBang.com contact info:

Currently we have offices in two locations:– Pittsburgh, PA

– Provo, UT

Wrapster builders

• Builders are based on simple, restricted languages, for example:– Ltagpath: p is defined by tag1,…,tagk and ptag1,…,tagk(s1,s2)

is true iff s1 and s2 correspond to DOM nodes and s2 is reached from s1 by following a path ending in tag1,…,tagk

• EXECUTE(pul,li,s1) = {“Pittsburgh,PA”, “Provo, UT”}

– Lbracket: p is defined by a pair of strings (l,r), and pl,r(s1,s2) is true iff s2 is preceded by l and followed by r.

• EXECUTE(pin,locations,s1) = {“two”}

Wrapster builders

For each language L there is a builder B which implements:

• LGG( positive examples of p(s1,s2)): least general p in L that covers all the positive examples (like pairwise generalization)– For Lbracket, longest common prefix and suffix of the

examples.

• REFINE(p, examples ): a set of p’s that cover some but not all of the examples.– For Ltagpath, extend the path with one additional tag that

appears in the examples.• Builders/languages can be combined:

– E.g. to construct a builder for (L1 and L2) or

(L1 composeWith L2)

Wrapster builders - examples

• Compose `tagpaths’ and `brackets’– E.g., “extract strings between ‘(‘ and ‘)’ inside a list

item inside an unordered list”

• Compose `tagpaths’ and language-based extractors– E.g., “extract city names inside the first paragraph”

• Extract items based on position inside a rendered table, or properties of the rendered text– E.g., “extract items inside any column headed by

text containing the words ‘Job’ and ‘Title’”– E.g. “extract items in boldfaced italics”

Wrapster results

F1

#examples

Broader Issues in IE

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(1) Association as Binary Classification

[Zelenko et al, 2002]

Christos Faloutsos conferred with Ted Senator, the KDD 2003 General Chair.

Person-Role (Christos Faloutsos, KDD 2003 General Chair) NO

Person-Role ( Ted Senator, KDD 2003 General Chair) YES

Person Person Role

Do this with SVMs and tree kernels over parse trees.

(1) Association with Finite State Machines[Ray & Craven, 2001]

… This enzyme, UBC6, localizes to the endoplasmic reticulum, with the catalytic domain facing the cytosol. …

DET thisN enzymeN ubc6V localizesPREP toART theADJ endoplasmicN reticulumPREP withART theADJ catalyticN domainV facingART theN cytosol Subcellular-localization (UBC6, endoplasmic reticulum)

(1) Association using Parse Tree[Miller et al 2000]Simultaneously POS tag, parse, extract & associate!

Increase space of parse constituents to includeentity and relation tags

Notation Description .

ch head constituent categorycm modifier constituent categoryXp X of parent nodet POS tagw word

Parameters e.g. .

P(ch|cp) P(vp|s)P(cm|cp,chp,cm-1,wp) P(per/np|s,vp,null,said)P(tm|cm,th,wh) P(per/nnp|per/np,vbd,said)P(wm|cm,tm,th,wh) P(nance|per/np,per/nnp,vbd,said)

(This is also a great exampleof extraction using a tree model.)

(1) Association with Graphical Models[Roth & Yih 2002]Capture arbitrary-distance

dependencies among predictions.

Local languagemodels contributeevidence to entityclassification.

Local languagemodels contributeevidence to relationclassification.

Random variableover the class ofentity #2, e.g. over{person, location,…}

Random variableover the class ofrelation between entity #2 and #1, e.g. over {lives-in, is-boss-of,…}

Dependencies between classesof entities and relations!

Inference with loopy belief propagation.

(1) Association with Graphical Models[Roth & Yih 2002]Also capture long-distance








person?

personlives-in

(1) Association with Graphical Models[Roth & Yih 2002]Also capture long-distance








location

personlives-in

(1) Association with “Grouping Labels”

• Create a simple language that reflects a field’s relation to other fields

• Language represents ability to define:– Disjoint fields– Shared fields– Scope

• Create rules that use field labels

[Jensen & Cohen, 2001]

(1) Grouping labels: A simple example

KitesBuy a kiteBox Kite $100Stunt Kite $300

Name: Box KiteCompany: -Location: -Order: -Cost: $100Description: -Color: -Size: -

Next:Name:recordstart

(2) Grouping labels: A messy example

KitesBuy a kiteBox Kite $100Stunt Kite $300

Box KiteGreat for kids

Detailed specs

SpecsColor: blueSize: small

Name: Box KiteCompany: -Location: -Order: -Cost: $100Description: Great for kidsColor: blueSize: small

prevlink:Cost

next:Name:recordstart

pagetype:Product

(2) User interface: adding labels to extracted fields

(1) Experimental Evaluation of Grouping Labels

next84%

prev1%

pagetype10%

prevlink4% nextlink

1%

Fixed language, then wrapped 499 new sites—all of which could be handled.

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(2) Learning a Distance Metric Between Records[Borthwick, 2000; Cohen & Richman, 2001; Bilenko & Mooney, 2002, 2003]

Learn Pr ({duplicate, not-duplicate} | record1, record2)with a Maximum Entropy classifier.

Do greedy agglomerative clustering using this Probability as a distance metric.

(2) String Edit Distance

• distance(“William Cohen”, “Willliam Cohon”)

W I L L I A M _ C O H E N

W I L L L I A M _ C O H O N

C C C C I C C C C C C C S C

0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2

s

t

op

cost

alignment

(2) Computing String Edit Distance

D(i,j) = minD(i-1,j-1) + d(si,tj) //subst/copyD(i-1,j)+1 //insertD(i,j-1)+1 //delete

C O H E N

M 1 2 3 4 5

C 1 2 3 4 5

C 2 3 3 4 5

O 3 2 3 4 5

H 4 3 2 3 4

N 5 4 3 3 3

A trace indicates where the min value came from, and can be used to find edit operations and/or a best alignment (may be more than 1)

learntheseparameters

(2) String Edit Distance Learning

Precision/recall for MAILING dataset duplicate detection

[Bilenko & Mooney, 2002, 2003]

(2) Information Integration

Goal might be to merge results of two IE systems:

Name: Introduction to Computer Science

Number: CS 101

Teacher: M. A. Kludge

Time: 9-11am

Name: Data Structures in Java

Room: 5032 Wean Hall

Title: Intro. to Comp. Sci.

Num: 101

Dept: Computer Science

Teacher: Dr. Klüdge

TA: John Smith

Topic: Java Programming

Start time: 9:10 AM

[Minton, Knoblock, et al 2001], [Doan, Domingos, Halevy 2001],[Richardson & Domingos 2003]

(2) Two further Object Consolidation Issues

• Efficiently clustering large data sets by pre-clustering with a cheap distance metric (hybrid of string-edit distance and term-based distances)– [McCallum, Nigam & Ungar, 2000]

• Don’t simply merge greedily: capture dependencies among multiple merges.– [Cohen, MacAllister, Kautz KDD 2000; Pasula,

Marthi, Milch, Russell, Shpitser, NIPS 2002; McCallum and Wellner, KDD WS 2003]

Relational Identity Uncertaintywith Probabilistic Relational Models (PRMs)

[Russell 2001], [Pasula et al 2002][Marthi, Milch, Russell 2003]

id

wordscontext

distance fonts

id

surname

agegender

N

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(Applied to citation matching, and object correspondence in vision)

A Conditional Random Field for Co-reference

. . . Mr Powell . . .

. . . Powell . . .

. . . she . . .

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x

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30)

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[McCallum & Wellner, 2003]

. . . Powell . . .

Inference in these CRFs = Graph Partitioning[Boykov, Vekler, Zabih, 1999], [Kolmogorov & Zabih, 2002], [Yu, Cross, Shi, 2002]

= 22

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paritions w/in,

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ijjill yxxfxyP

. . . Condoleezza Rice . . .

. . . she . . .

. . . Mr. Powell . . .

Inference in these CRFs = Graph Partitioning[Boykov, Vekler, Zabih, 1999], [Kolmogorov & Zabih, 2002], [Yu, Cross, Shi, 2002]

. . . Condoleezza Rice . . .

. . . she . . .

. . . Powell . . . . . . Mr. Powell . . .

paritions

across ,ij

paritions w/in,

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Heuristic “interesting” meta-patterns.

(1) (2)

Two inputs:

(3) Automatically Inducing an Ontology[Riloff, ‘95]

Subject/Verb/Objectpatterns that occurmore often in therelevant documentsthan the irrelevantones.

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See also [Brin 1998], [Blum & Mitchell 1998], [Riloff & Jones 1999]

…says Mr. Cooper, a vice president of …

Use two independent sets of features:

Contents: full-string=Mr._Cooper, contains(Mr.), contains(Cooper)Context: context-type=appositive, appositive-head=president

NNP NNP appositive phrase, head=president

full-string=New_York Locationfill-string=California Locationfull-string=U.S. Locationcontains(Mr.) Personcontains(Incorporated) Organizationfull-string=Microsoft Organizationfull-string=I.B.M. Organization

1. Start with just seven rules: and ~1M sentences of NYTimes

2. Alternately train & label using each feature set.

3. Obtain 83% accuracy at finding person, location, organization & other in appositives and prepositional phrases!

Consider just appositives and prepositional phrases...

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• Some special properties of IE data:– It is based on extracted text– It is “dirty”, (missing extraneous facts, improperly normalized

entity names, etc.)– May need cleaning before use

• What operations can be done on dirty, unnormalized databases?– Datamine it directly.– Query it directly with a language that has “soft joins” across

similar, but not identical keys. [Cohen 1998]– Use it to construct features for learners [Cohen 2000]– Infer a “best” underlying clean database

[Cohen, Kautz, MacAllester, KDD2000]

(5) Data Mining: Mutually supportive IE and Data Mining [Nahm & Mooney, 2000]

Extract a large databaseLearn rules to predict the value of each field from the other fields.Use these rules to increase the accuracy of IE.

Example DB record Sample Learned Rules

platform:AIX & !application:Sybase & application:DB2application:Lotus Notes

language:C++ & language:C & application:Corba & title=SoftwareEngineer platform:Windows

language:HTML & platform:WindowsNT & application:ActiveServerPages area:Database

Language:Java & area:ActiveX & area:Graphics area:Web

(5) Working with IE Data

• Association rule mining using IE data• Classification using IE data

[Cohen, ICML2000]

Idea: do very lightweight “site wrapping” of relevant pages

Make use of (partial, noisy) wrappers



– Many features based on lists, tables, etc are proposed

– The learner filters these features and decides which to use in a classifier

– How else can proposed structures be filtered?

(5) Finding “pretty good” wrappers without site-specific training data

• Local structure in extraction– Assume a set of “seed examples” similar to field to be

extracted.– Identify small possible wrappers (e.g., simple tagpaths)– Use semantic information to evaluate, for each wrapper

• Average minimum TFIDF distance to a known positive “seed example” over all extracted strings

– Adopt best single tagpath

• Results on 84 pre-wrapped page types (Cohen, AAAI-99)– 100% equivalent to target wrapper 80% of time– More conventional learning approach: 100% equivalent to

target wrapper 50% of the time (Cohen & Fan, WWW-99)



– Many features based on lists, tables, etc are proposed

– The learner filters these features and decides which to use in a classifier

– How else can proposed structures be filtered?– How else can structures be proposed?

builder

predicate

List1

Task: classify links as to whether they point to an “executive biography” page

builder

predicate

List2

builder

predicate

List3

Features extracted:

{ List1, List3,…},

{ List1, List2, List3,…}, { List2, List 3,…},

{ List2, List3,…},

…

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Error reduced by almost half on average

Learning Formatting Patterns “On the Fly”:“Scoped Learning” for IE

[Blei, Bagnell, McCallum, 2002][Taskar, Wong, Koller 2003]

Formatting is regular on each site, but there are too many different sites to wrap.Can we get the best of both worlds?

Scoped Learning Generative Model

1. For each of the D documents:a) Generate the multinomial formatting

feature parameters from p(|)

2. For each of the N words in the document:

a) Generate the nth category cn from

p(cn).

b) Generate the nth word (global feature)

from p(wn|cn,)

c) Generate the nth formatting feature

(local feature) from p(fn|cn,)

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Global Extractor: Precision = 46%, Recall = 75%

Scoped Learning Extractor: Precision = 58%, Recall = 75% Error = -22%

Wrap-up

IE Resources

• Data– RISE, http://www.isi.edu/~muslea/RISE/index.html– Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)

• Penn Treebank, Named Entities, Relations, etc.– http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~craven/ie– http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/data

• Code– TextPro, http://www.ai.sri.com/~appelt/TextPro– MALLET, http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/mallet– SecondString, http://secondstring.sourceforge.net/

• Both– http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~adwait/penntools.html

Where from Here?

• Science– Higher accuracy, integration with data mining.– Relational Learning, Minimizing labeled data needs, unified

models of all four of IE’s components.– Multi-modal IE: text, images, video, audio. Multi-lingual.

• Profit– SRA, Inxight, Fetch, Mohomine, Cymfony,… you?– Bio-informatics, Intelligent Tutors, Information Overload,

Anti-terrorism

• Fun– Search engines that return “things” instead of “pages”

(people, companies, products, universities, courses…)– New insights by mining previously untapped knowledge.

Thank you!

More information:

William Cohen:http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wcohen

Andrew McCallumhttp://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum

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