Advances in Automated Knowledge Base Construction

Recent years have seen significant advances on the creation of large-scale knowledge bases (KBs). Extracting knowledge from Web pages, and integrating it into a coherent KB is a task that spans the areas of natural language processing, information extraction, information integration, databases, search and machine learning. Some of the latest developments in the field were presented at the AKBC-WEKEX workshop on knowledge extraction at the NAACL-HLC 2012 conference. This workshop included 23 accepted papers, and 11 keynotes by senior researchers. The workshop had speakers from all major search engine providers, government institutions, and the leading universities in the field. In this survey, we summarize the papers, the keynotes, and the discussions at this workshop.