# ASET: Ad-hoc Structured Exploration of Text Collections [Extended Abstract]

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04663 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.04663/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 3 of its 7 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 9 Mar 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.10084/) (2019)
- [Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.07082/) (2020)
- [Advances in Pre-Training Distributed Word Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.09405/) (2017)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we propose a new system called ASET that allows users to perform structured explorations of text collections in an ad-hoc manner. The main idea of ASET is to use a new two-phase approach that first extracts a superset of information nuggets from the texts using existing extractors such as named entity recognizers and then matches the extractions to a structured table definition as requested by the user based on embeddings. In our evaluation, we show that ASET is thus able to extract structured data from real-world text collections in high quality without the need to design extraction pipelines upfront.