Regular expressions have served as the dominant workhorse of practical information
extraction for several years. However, there has been little work on reducing the manual …

Search has become ubiquitous but that does not mean that search has been solved.
Enterprise search, which is broadly speaking the use of information retrieval technology to …

Evaluation is instrumental to develo** and managing effective information retrieval
systems. For this process, enlisting crowdsourcing has proven viable. However, less …

Regular expressions with capture variables, also known as" regex formulas,''extract relations
of spans (interval positions) from text. These relations can be further manipulated via the …

We propose a new grammar-based language for defining information-extractors from
documents (text) that is built upon the well-studied framework of document spanners for …

Enterprise search allows users in an enterprise to retrieve desired information through a
simple search interface. It is widely viewed as an important productivity tool within an …

A document spanner models a program for Information Extraction (IE) as a function that
takes as input a text document (string over a finite alphabet) and produces a relation of …

The population of a predefined relational schema from textual content, commonly known as
Information Extraction (IE), is a pervasive task in contemporary computational challenges …

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer pro grams encoded on computer
storage media, for generating query recommendations. One method provides selecting one …

The population of a predefined relational schema from textual content, commonly known as
Information Extraction (IE), is a pervasive task in contemporary computational challenges …