The demo given by Anand on semantic search of feeds using OpenCalais was very interesting. The fact that his app essentially did something that Feedly<http://www.feedly.com/>( based on Google Reader ) does piqued my interest.
Feedly too uses OpenCalais to get semantic information on a blog post and for search. If you use Google Reader as a RSS reader then you have to check out Feedly. Anand used python-calais <http://code.google.com/p/python-calais/> for communicating to the OpenCalais API<http://opencalais.com/documentation/calais-web-service-api/api-invocation/rest> . Anand then showed how OpenCalais categorized the input text into entities, topics and relations. With every entity OpenCalais attached a percentage that indicated how sure it was on the element being the entity whose identity was given by a URL. For instance, there is a URL identiying the entity "Android" as a product. Open Calais is exciting new technology that has made information gathering applications like Feedly and Klezio <http://www.klezio.com/> possible. Another application is Tagaroo <http://tagaroo.opencalais.com/> a wordpress plugin that automatically generates tags as you type your blog post. In the meetup Anand said that the current state-of-the-art of semantic web is not even 5% of its potential. A quick search of the term imagine semantic web<http://www.readwriteweb.com/fastsearch?search=imagine+semantic+web&x=0&y=0>on ReadWriteWeb shows that a lot of businesses and visionaries are betting big on semantic web and know that it has a lot of potential. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sriram...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I had some stuff to take care of and was too tired to attend the >> > meeting. How did it go? Any tidbits that the list might benefit from? >> > >> >> The opencalais session was good. I'm going to tell my colleagues about >> this, and they'd surely explore it more. >> >> Anand and Ramdas have asked that we have sessions again with more >> detail. I agree, since the scant amount of ZFS that I showcased today >> was in itself radically different from what we all know from other >> file systems. >> >> I request feedback from other attendees on today's ZFS session. Please >> let me know what else you'd have liked me to cover at an introduction >> level. >> > > We had a good meeting. There were some initial hiccups with the > projector but moving to a separate meeting room solved it. > > I presented a brief introduction to semantic web and showcased the > OpenCalais API using python-calais. I showed how to extract semantic > concepts (categories) from existing data using the API. > > I went on to demo my application which listens to a couple of mobile > phone news feeds and uses semantic information returned by OpenCalais > to provide specific natural language queries (not exactly NLP there yet, > but I am simulating NLP like queries) which return specific answers. > > The demo showed making a query on "cost of motorola android" and > this returning the specific data requested on the price of the most > recent motorola android mobile phones. > > I will wait for some other attendee for their feedback on how good > this was rather than making the comment myself :) > > This was followed by a very good session by Sriram and Moinak on > the capabilities of ZFS. I don't want to get into details, but I was blown > away by the capabilities of ZFS. I had only read about it before and never > seen it in action, so when Sriram showed how to increase the storage > of an existing volume by adding another device and just adding it to > the volume using "zfs add" it was just too good to believe. ZFS > makes those actions which could take hours using Linux ext3 > look trivial and done within seconds...! > > We started the ZFS session a bit late i.e around 5.30 pm so there > was not much time to showcase all the bits planned. We dispersed > around 6.10 pm. > > We were 7 attendees in total. > > >> >> -- Sriram >> _______________________________________________ >> BangPypers mailing list >> BangPypers@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers >> > > > > -- > --Anand > > > > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > >
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