DEADLINER: building a new niche search engine

We present DEADLINER, a search engine that catalogs conference and workshop announcements, and ultimately will monitor and extract a wide range of academic convocation material from the web. The system currently extracts speakers, locations, dates, paper submission (and other) deadlines, topics, program committees, abstracts, and aAEliations. A user or user agent can perform detailed searches on these elds. DEADLINER was constructed using a methodology for rapid implementation of specialized search engines. This methodology avoids complex hand-tuned text extraction solutions, or natural language processing, by Bayesian integration of simple extractors that exploit loose formatting and keyw ord con ventions. The Bayesian framework further produces a search engine where each user can control the false alarm rate on a eld in an intuitive yet rigorous fashion.

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