How to get started on Information Extraction?

Question

Could you recommend a training path to start and become very good in Information Extraction. I started reading about it to do one of my hobby project and soon realized that I wo

Answer 1

The Wikipedia Information Extraction article is a quick introduction.

At a more academic level, you might want to skim a paper like Integrating Probabilistic Extraction Models and Data Mining to Discover Relations and Patterns in Text.