DEADLINER
A. Kruger, Clyde Lee Giles, Frans M. Coetzee, Eric Glover, Gary William Flake, Sandra A. Lawrence, Christian Walter Peter Omlin · 2000
We p r e s e n t DEADLINER, a search engine that catalogs conference and workshop announcements, and ultimately will monitor and extract a wide range of academic convocation material from the web.The system currently extracts speakers, locations, dates, paper submission (and other) deadlines, topics, program committees, abstracts, and aÆliations.A user or user agent can perform detailed searches on these elds.DEADLINER was constructed using a methodology for rapid implementation of specialized search engines.This methodology avoids complex hand-tuned text extraction solutions, or natural language processing, by B a yesian integration of simple extractors that exploit loose formatting and keyw ord con ventions.The Bayesian framework further produces a search engine where each user can control the false alarm rate on a eld in an intuitive y et rigorous fashion.