Thanks for pointing us to this article Jason.
On 7/1/11 3:30 AM, Jason Baldridge wrote:
Seth Grimes wrote the following article on Stanbol, OpenNLP and such:
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/iks-means-semantic-intelligence-for-content-management-but-will-it-survive-011848.php
I would highlight this paragraph on page 2:
OpenNLP has Apache incubation status, which is a sort-of provisional
acceptance by the Apache Software Foundation. It provides only basic NLP
functions. It doesn't support extraction of facts, events, or relationships,
nor sentiment or pattern-based information such as telephone numbers and
e-mail addresses.
Yeah, he is right we have no engine to extract events, facts, or
relationships. The
reason we do not have this is that never anyone contributed it. There is
also no reason
why we should not have some more advanced rule based NER system.
I guess a question is whether OpenNLP should be doing any of those things,
or just stay focussed on core NLP tasks that other software builds on.
Most of the components we have are independent of each other, when we
can get
support for the above mentioned task, why not?
I believe it would be great if we create jiras for new tasks we are
interested in, find
people who would like to work on it and then support them with ideas and
discussion
on how things could be done.
We could highlight these tasks on the website in a contributions wanted
page.
Jörn
