I believe Chris Schmidt was working on this at some point? Cheers, Tom Longson
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Kathleen Danielson <[email protected]> wrote: > http://clavin.bericotechnologies.com/ > > This might be what you're looking for. > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Catherine D'Ignazio <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
