Notes on the Acquisition of Conditional Knowledge
Benjamin Van Durme · 2008
Research in Information Extraction has been overly focused on the extraction of facts concerning individuals as compared to general knowledge pertaining to classes of entities and events. In addition, preference has been given to simple techniques in order to enable high volume throughput. In what follows we give examples of existing work in the field of knowledge acquisition, then follow with ideas on areas for exploration beyond the current state of the art, specifically with respect to the extraction of conditional knowledge, making use of deeper linguistic analysis than is currently the norm.