Reuters released a web service called Open Calais. It is built on <a href=''http://www.clearforest.com/">clear forest technology that has been around for a while.
You can throw text at it and get tags organized by country, personalities, industry terms, ... in RDF format back. It is of better accuracy than http://tagger.flaptor.com/findtags, http://tagthe.net or yahoo terms extraction API (http://www.programmableweb.com/api/yahoo-term-extraction, http://drupal.org/project/yahoo_terms)
You can try it here:
http://autotagger.opensynapse.net/
and with this firefox extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3999
Here is an interesting article exploring the potential and the ideas behind this service: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/reuters_calais.php
Has anybody got some experience with open calais? Plans for creating a Drupal wrapper module?
Alex
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Hello, Alex,
Hello, Alex,
It looks like there's a wrapper module in progress -- http://drupal.org/project/calais
The most recent cvs commit is March 11th --
There has also been a couple conversations on g.d.o, where one of the folks from OpenCalais chimed in -- http://groups.drupal.org/node/8801 and http://groups.drupal.org/node/8800
Between this, and the ongoing RDF work, there are some pretty interesting possibilities.
Cheers,
Bill
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Drats, I totally broke stale
Drats, I totally broke stale news, here. Thanks for posting these links.
Alex
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Interview with ClearForest's CEO
For anyone wanting to learn more about Calais: Talis did an interview with ClearForest's CEO a few days ago (ClearForest is the technology underlying Calais).