Thank you for the responses, both on- and off-list. So I see perhaps I should recast my question, with maybe wider scope.
I have a load of abstract-style text fragments - that is perhaps 100 words each, on a wide variety of topics, although there is a bit of a technical bent. I want to be able to do linkage between them and to other things, based around our lovely Linked Data world. That is, have lots triples something like :docIDn :some-pred :conceptURI It would be a bonus to know which words in the text triggered the generation of the triple. Of course, the system doesn’t actually have to generate the triples - I can build them if I get sufficiently sensible output, including the sort of html output that Spotlight does. And because it goes automatically to users, I need quite high precision, even if recall suffers (I think is the terminology). Oh, and ideally free, although not necessarily. My current preference is for dbpedia or freebase URIs, but wordnet is probably OK too. I think this must be something that there are people who have done this (a lot). Or at least there should be. There are certainly quite a lot of systems that can do it, some more or less playing well with Linked Data URIs. I think my problem (apart from laziness) is that the systems I look at seem to want me to care about what they do, or at least engage with tuning and things, which means I need some understanding of what they do, which I don’t have (and I probably don’t care either :-) ). So, does anyone (else) feel they can point me at a system for doing this that I can just use out of the box (possibly having been told some parameters to use)? Of course, maybe I am just asking too much of the technology at the moment, but I can hope! Best Hugh -- Hugh Glaser 20 Portchester Rise Eastleigh SO50 4QS Mobile: +44 75 9533 4155, Home: +44 23 8061 5652
