Comments on: Entity extraction everywhere

By: Elliot Turner

Elliot Turner — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:25:49 +0000

At Orchestr8, we’ve been bringing Entity Extraction and other text mining capabilities “into the cloud”. Developers can utilize our REST api or SDKs to integrate natural language processing capabilities into their apps.

AlchemyAPI supports 6+ spoken languages (English, French, ..), extraction of dozens of entity types, disambiguation support, text classification, etc.

Other worthwhile Entity Extraction solutions include those from BasisTech and Teragram.

By: Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge - petermr’s blog » Blog Archive » Feature Extraction and Feature authoring

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:09:31 +0000

[...] Jon Udell in a post commenting on Tim O’Reilly’s review of Twine talks about entity extraction and a firefox plugin called Gnosis. I had heard about Gnosis before, but only looked at it askance. However, Jon’s post made me take a second look, and all I can say is WOW. Take a look at the screenshot below [PMR: omitted here]. It shows the features that Gnosis extracted from my blog post on pharma futurology. The interesting thing is not the actual results, but the concept. If you could do the Freebase thing, and add additional information which gets stored in a dictionary somewhere, you have that much power available to you. PMR: And OSCAR does pretty much the same for chemistry. Maybe the way forward is a mashup of domain-specific engines in a single framework. I’d certainly like to see the context added. There is so much experimentation to be done – and like all experiments we have to expect failures as well as successes. But the cost of each is getting less. [...]

By: » The value of data extraction » business|bytes|genes|molecules

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:42:37 +0000

[...] Jon Udell in a post commenting on Tim O’Reilly’s review of Twine talks about entity extraction and a firefox plugin called Gnosis. I had heard about Gnosis before, but only looked at it askance. However, Jon’s post made me take a second look, and all I can say is WOW. Take a look at the screenshot below. It shows the features that Gnosis extracted from my blog post on pharma futurology. The interesting thing is not the actual results, but the concept. If you could do the Freebase thing, and add additional information which gets stored in a dictionary somewhere, you have that much power available to you. Just as a note, for more complex pages, Gnosis is not always accurate, but the potential is obvious. You can also perform additional queries based on the extracted features. There will come a time when the options available will be that much more powerful. Adaptive Blue’s BlueOrganizer also takes a similar approach, recognizing books, websites, etc. Click for larger image [...]

By: Nigel

Nigel — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:51:04 +0000

> I’d love to see this kind of entity extraction turn into a commodity
>service that we can wire into our existing email, blogging, social
> networking, and social bookmarking systems.

You will see that a lot of this is already covered by Jiglu.com, which plugs staight into blogs