{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"FACILE: Classifying Texts Integrating Pattern Matching and Information Extraction","authors":[{"name":"Fabio Ciravegna","slug":"fabio-ciravegna","given":"Fabio","family":"Ciravegna","affiliation":""},{"name":"Alberto Lavelli","slug":"alberto-lavelli","given":"Alberto","family":"Lavelli","affiliation":""},{"name":"Luca Gilardoni","slug":"luca-gilardoni","given":"Luca","family":"Gilardoni","affiliation":""},{"name":"Johannes Matiasek","slug":"johannes-matiasek","given":"Johannes","family":"Matiasek","affiliation":""},{"name":"Nadia Mana","slug":"nadia-mana","given":"Nadia","family":"Mana","affiliation":""},{"name":"Silvia Mazza","slug":"silvia-mazza","given":"Silvia","family":"Mazza","affiliation":""},{"name":"Massimo Ferraro","slug":"massimo-ferraro","given":"Massimo","family":"Ferraro","affiliation":""},{"name":"William J. Black","slug":"william-j-black","given":"William J.","family":"Black","affiliation":""},{"name":"Fabio Rinaldi","slug":"fabio-rinaldi","given":"Fabio","family":"Rinaldi","affiliation":""},{"name":"David Mowatt","slug":"david-mowatt","given":"David","family":"Mowatt","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Successfully managing information means being able to find relevant new information and to correctly integrate it with pre-existing knowledge. Much information is nowadays stored as multilingual textual data; therefore advanced classification systems are currently considered as strategic components for effective knowledge management. We describe an experie~ce integrating different innovative AI t~chnolog~es such as hierarchical pattern matchmg and mformation extraction to provide flexible multilingual classification adaptable to user needs. Pattern matching produces fairly accurate and fast categorisation over a large number of classes, while information extraction provides fine-grained classification for a reduced number of classes. The resulting system was adopted by the main Italian financial news agency providing a pay-to-view service.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/127","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/0127.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/127.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/bibtex/127","volume":{"slug":"1999","title":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1999","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/","year":1999,"location":"Stockholm, Sweden","dates":"","editors":"Thomas Dean","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language Processing","track":"Natural Language Processing","number":127,"pages":{"first":890,"last":896},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}