... and the validation and ranking ofcandidate facts. The evaluation mea-sures the quality and coverage of factsextracted from one hundred million Webdocuments, starting from ten seed facts and ... disabled, and the ranking of patterns and facts follows strictly the criteria and scoringfunctions from (Thelen and Riloff, 2002), whichare also used in slightly different form in (Lita and Carbonell, ... recognition (Collins and Singer, 1999), extrac-tion of binary relations (Agichtein and Gravano,2000), and acquisition of structured data for taskssuch as Question Answering (Lita and Carbonell,2004;...