ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Open information extraction

Open information extraction is like playing with Legos to learn something new. Imagine you have a big pile of Lego pieces, and you want to build something with them. But you don't know what you're going to build yet. So, you start to sort them by color and shape to see what you have.

That's what open information extraction does with text. It takes a bunch of words and tries to figure out what they mean, without knowing beforehand what topics the words are about.

To do this, it uses a computer program that looks at the words and sorts them into different categories based on what they do in a sentence (like "subject" or "verb"). Then, it tries to figure out which words are most important for understanding what the sentence is saying.

Finally, it uses these important words to create a summary that tells you what the sentence is talking about. It's like building something with Lego pieces, but instead of building a car or a house, you're building an understanding of what the text is saying.

So, open information extraction is a way to learn about lots of different topics by sorting through a big pile of words and figuring out what they mean. And just like playing with Legos, it can be really fun and rewarding to see what you can build!