AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTING INFORMATION ABOUT LOCAL EVENTS FROM WEB PAGES

摘要

A system and method for electronically extracting events from electronic documents such as web pages uses a probabilistic extraction tool to linguistically process the electronic documents and generate event data. The probabilistic extraction tool may be configured using Hidden Markov Model techniques and trained with manually extracted event descriptions. The list of events extracted automatically may be useful to define local event data portals making notice of local events electronically available and searchable to users.