Madec, HenriOrasan, ConstantinBaptista, JorgeCalixto, Iacer Coimbra Alves Cavalcanti2014-03-062014-03-062013http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3584Dissertação de mest., Processamento de Linguagem Natural e Indústrias da Língua, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Univ. do Algarve, 2013The Internet is a network of computers which dates its origins back to the 1960s. This network of networks known as the Internet slowly began to drive organisations and people towards interconnectedness and set the foundations of a constant growth in the quantity of information available – an unprecedented situation until then. In parallel with this development the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) was receiving a fair amount of funding, specially for efforts of translation for the Russian-English language pair. Information Extraction (IE) is an NLP field concerned with the automatic extraction of information from text written in natural language.engProcessamento de linguagem naturalMineração textualExtração de informaçãoLinguística computacionalAnálise textualmaster thesis202463877