I can advice you GATE and ANNIE. Gate is a framework for Text-mining. ANNIE is a pipeline of Gate's components for the extraction of Named Entities like names of people, locations, companies etc. You can use Gate/Annie programmatically throught their Java API.
http://gate.ac.uk/ Alex McLintock wrote: > I'm quite interested in OpenCalais - a Reuters/Thompson initiative. It > is a web service to take your free text and identify important terms > in it like people, businesses, places, and so on. If you are the > document owner you can submit your document to their web site and get > back important tags saying what this document is about. I'd like to > tag this sort of data and feed it into a Lucene style index so that it > can be used in searches AND in focussed/topical crawls. > > Now, here comes the problem. When we crawl the web we don't own the > documents we are crawling so we don't really have permission to use > Reuters' servers to do this analysis. (Maybe we could cut a deal > though if we were a big enough company). > > So has anyone else looked at alternatives to OpenCalais which takes > free text and tries to understand what it is about? I've been looking > for software to do this but nothing seems suitable. > > Alex > > -- Claudio Martella Digital Technologies Unit Research & Development - Analyst TIS innovation park Via Siemens 19 | Siemensstr. 19 39100 Bolzano | 39100 Bozen Tel. +39 0471 068 123 Fax +39 0471 068 129 [email protected] http://www.tis.bz.it Short information regarding use of personal data. According to Section 13 of Italian Legislative Decree no. 196 of 30 June 2003, we inform you that we process your personal data in order to fulfil contractual and fiscal obligations and also to send you information regarding our services and events. Your personal data are processed with and without electronic means and by respecting data subjects' rights, fundamental freedoms and dignity, particularly with regard to confidentiality, personal identity and the right to personal data protection. At any time and without formalities you can write an e-mail to [email protected] in order to object the processing of your personal data for the purpose of sending advertising materials and also to exercise the right to access personal data and other rights referred to in Section 7 of Decree 196/2003. The data controller is TIS Techno Innovation Alto Adige, Siemens Street n. 19, Bolzano. You can find the complete information on the web site www.tis.bz.it.
