On 26/11/2007, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26/11/2007, Tom Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - The BBC has at least one *excellent* term extractor in house which > > adds extra metadata like 'this term is a person/place/topic'... would > > be a lovely API to offer, hint hint... > > API? > > Nah, it would be a larger contribution if they released the source code.
Not in this case. Source code isn't that important for term extraction. What matters much more is the dictionary, and this is where the BBC's librarians have added lotsa value. In this case access to the data is more valuable than access to source code. Given you can't have both (the source code isn't owned by the BBC) I'd be happy with open data. > See my sig. I did. Cathy Come Home would seem to disprove it as a hypothesis. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
