Publications of EMNLP 2013 are released: http://aclweb.org/anthology/D/D13/
On the list, I found a very interested article “Rule-based Information Extraction is Dead! Long Live Rule-based Information Extraction Systems!“. It discusses the disconnect between industry and academia: while rule-based IE dominates the commercial world, it is widely regarded as dead-end technology by the academia. The following table summarizes the pros and cons of machine learning and rule-based information extraction technologies (reproduced from the above paper).
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