Very very cool! I've been expecting something like this for a while. Glad it's finally here!
Congrats guys! Juan Sequeda +1-575-SEQ-UEDA www.juansequeda.com On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Pablo Mendes <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > we are happy to announce a first release of DBpedia Spotlight - Shedding > Light on the Web of Documents. > > The amount of data in the Linked Open Data cloud is steadily increasing. > Interlinking text documents with this data enables the Web of Data to be > used as background knowledge within document-oriented applications such as > search and faceted browsing. > > DBpedia Spotlight is a tool for annotating mentions of DBpedia resources in > text, providing a solution for linking unstructured information sources to > the Linked Open Data cloud through DBpedia. The DBpedia Spotlight > Architecture is composed by the following modules: > * Web application, a demonstration client (HTML/Javascript UI) that > allows users to enter/paste text into a Web browser and visualize the > resulting annotated text. > * Web Service, a RESTful Web API that exposes the functionality of > annotating and/or disambiguating entities in text. The service returns XML, > JSON or RDF. > * Annotation Java / Scala API, exposing the underlying logic that > performs the annotation/disambiguation. > * Indexing Java / Scala API, executing the data processing necessary to > enable the annotation/disambiguation algorithms used. > > More information about DBpedia Spotlight can be found at: > > http://spotlight.dbpedia.org > > DBpedia Spotlight is provided under the terms of the Apache License, > Version 2.0. Part of the code uses LingPipe under the Royalty Free License. > The source code can be downloaded from: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbp-spotlight > > The development of DBpedia Spotlight was supported by: > > * Neofonie GmbH, a Berlin-based company offering leading technologies > in the area of Web search, social media and mobile applications ( > http://www.neofonie.de/). > * The European Commission through the project LOD2 – Creating Knowledge > out of Linked Data (http://lod2.eu/). > > Lots of thanks to: > > * Andreas Schultz for his help with the SPARQL endpoint. > * Paul Kreis for his help with evaluations. > * Robert Isele and Anja Jentzsch for their help in early stages with > the DBpedia extraction framework. > > Cheers, > Pablo N. Mendes, Max Jakob, Andrés García-Silva and Chris Bizer. >
