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  <Title>Transforming Examples into Patterns for Information Extraction</Title>
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7 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Porting an existing system to a new domain presents an important problem in IE. Effective techniques are needed to minimize the time and complexity of the process, and to extricate the porting process from low-level system details, so that it can be undertaken by non-expert users. In this report, we have described our approach to the problem, based on: * example-based acquisition of scenario-specific patterns, * system-aided generalization of acquired patterns, at the semantic and syntactic level.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The experience we have gained from implementing this strategy leads us to believe in its overall usefulness. null</Paragraph>
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