TY - JOUR
T1 - A survey of event extraction methods from text for decision support systems
AU - Hoogenboom, F.P.
AU - Frasincar, Flavius
AU - Kaymak, Uzay
AU - de Jong, Franciska
AU - Caron, E.A.M.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Event extraction, a specialized stream of information extraction rooted back into the 1980s, has greatly gained in popularity due to the advent of big data and the developments in the related fields of text mining and natural language processing. However, up to this date, an overview of this particular field remains elusive. Therefore, we give a summarization of event extraction techniques for textual data, distinguishing between data-driven, knowledge-driven, and hybrid methods, and present a qualitative evaluation of these. Moreover, we discuss common decision support applications of event extraction from text corpora. Last, we elaborate on the evaluation of event extraction systems and identify current research issues.
AB - Event extraction, a specialized stream of information extraction rooted back into the 1980s, has greatly gained in popularity due to the advent of big data and the developments in the related fields of text mining and natural language processing. However, up to this date, an overview of this particular field remains elusive. Therefore, we give a summarization of event extraction techniques for textual data, distinguishing between data-driven, knowledge-driven, and hybrid methods, and present a qualitative evaluation of these. Moreover, we discuss common decision support applications of event extraction from text corpora. Last, we elaborate on the evaluation of event extraction systems and identify current research issues.
U2 - 10.1016/j.dss.2016.02.006
DO - 10.1016/j.dss.2016.02.006
M3 - Article
SN - 0167-9236
VL - 85
SP - 12
EP - 22
JO - Decision Support Systems
JF - Decision Support Systems
IS - C
ER -