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iEXTRACT

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Information Extraction for Everyone
Staggering amounts of information are stored in natural language documents, rendering them unavailable to data-science techniques. Information Extraction (IE), a subfield of Natural Language Processing (NLP), aims to automate the... Staggering amounts of information are stored in natural language documents, rendering them unavailable to data-science techniques. Information Extraction (IE), a subfield of Natural Language Processing (NLP), aims to automate the extraction of structured information from text, yielding datasets that can be queried, analyzed and combined to provide new insights and drive research forward. Despite tremendous progress in NLP, IE systems remain mostly inaccessible to non-NLP-experts who can greatly benefit from them. This stems from the current methods for creating IE systems: the dominant machine-learning (ML) approach requires technical expertise and large amounts of annotated data, and does not provide the user control over the extraction process. The previously dominant rule-based approach unrealistically requires the user to anticipate and deal with the nuances of natural language. I aim to remedy this situation by revisiting rule-based IE in light of advances in NLP and ML. The key idea is to cast IE as a collaborative human-computer effort, in which the user provides domain-specific knowledge, and the system is in charge of solving various domain-independent linguistic complexities, ultimately allowing the user to query unstructured texts via easily structured forms. More specifically, I aim develop: (a) a novel structured representation that abstracts much of the complexity of natural language; (b) algorithms that derive these representations from texts; (c) an accessible rule language to query this representation; (d) AI components that infer the user extraction intents, and based on them promote relevant examples and highlight extraction cases that require special attention. The ultimate goal of this project is to democratize NLP and bring advanced IE capabilities directly to the hands of domain-experts: doctors, lawyers, researchers and scientists, empowering them to process large volumes of data and advance their profession. ver más
30/04/2025
BIU
1M€
Duración del proyecto: 72 meses Fecha Inicio: 2019-04-30
Fecha Fin: 2025-04-30

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo H2020 notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2019-04-30
Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
ERC-2018-STG: ERC Starting Grant
Cerrada hace 7 años
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 1M€
Líder del proyecto
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Perfil tecnológico TRL 4-5