Hello - I'm a researcher at the Center for Civic Media looking at mapping news articles.
I need to find a service, API or software that will take unstructured text - news articles - and return me a list of the places (or geolocated points) referenced by the text. Basically I need exactly this product -- Yahoo Placespotter by Yahoo - http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/geo/ But that's super expensive. Do you know of open source versions of this kind of thing? OpenCalais looks somewhat promising. I've looked at some more general NLP projects out of universities but it seems like something specific to geo information will do a much better job. I've started a google doc to evaluate different products & projects here: Place Data Extraction Engines https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlTJHPRRAN2AdHUzU19INkU0WnI3NURKd041QzNDMFE#gid=0 Any thoughts much appreciated, Catherine ///////////////////////////// Catherine D'Ignazio Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media [email protected] || [email protected] || @kanarinka || +1 617 501 2441 || www.kanarinka.com _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
