This paper describes SMES, an information extraction core system for real world German text processing. The basic design criterion of the system is of providing a set of basic powerful, robust, and efficient natural language components and generic linguistic knowledge sources which can easily be customized for processing different tasks in a flexible manner.
@article{arxiv.cmp-lg/9706023,
title = {An Information Extraction Core System for Real World German Text Processing},
author = {G. Neumann and R. Backofen and J. Baur and M. Becker and C. Braun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9706023},
year = {2008}
}