The NYU Cold Start System for TAC 2015

The KBP Cold Start task builds a knowledge base from scratch using a given document collection and a predefined schema for the entities and relations. We describe the NYU submission to the TAC 2015 Cold Start track (KB variant). We report the overall architecture, new modules we introduce this year, experimental results, and experiments we conduct on building KBP relation extractors using an active learning tool developed for NLP novices.