Ph.D. Thesis Richard C. Wang: Language-Independent Class Instance Extraction Using the Web. In CMU SCS Technical Report Series (CMU-LTI-09-020), 2009. PowerPoint Slides: phd-thesis.ppt Thesis Systems Automatic Set Instance Acquirer (ASIA) Instance Acquisition refers to extracting instances of a given semantic class name (e.g., car makers => Ford, Nissan, Toyota). ASIA extracts set instances by uti