> From: "Catherine D'Ignazio" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Geowanking] Extracting places from unstructured text > > 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 > > Like this?
https://github.com/petewarden/geodict Peter Warden has a nice blog entry about the Data Science Toolkit which may be of interest to you http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2013/02/why-is-open-geocoding-important.html - Ragi
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