What is Information Extraction?  What is the user's benefit?

''gets only relevant, important facts out of a plenty of information. leaves out irrelevant information and shows searched in a compact structure;
benefit: getting basic facts out of a extensive text in short time. ''

What are common tasks?

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- split up sentences''

''- analyze words''

''- assign words to specific groups''

''- analyze entities(words/letters assigned in groups) and connect if they are similar''

What is a Template?

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a predefined, structured representation in which the entities are placed''

What is an Entity?

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predefined classes, such as persons, locations etc.''


What are interesting scenarios?

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find out information about a person out of documents, emails, pictures and other files on his computer. find out who he is, who he knows, where he's been, what he likes etc. ''