Opennlp is a great java package with working named entity recognition. I've had a lot of success with it. That said, the Stanford nlp stuff is always highly acclaimed, though I had trouble figuring it all out the last time I tried it.
On Jul 2, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Claudio Martella <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > >
