improving the signal to noise ratio. information in context. web as knowledge.
(Re-purposing a post of mine from www.opencalais.com)
Over the last few months you’ve probably seen a number of announcements about how OpenCalais has been chosen by one organization or another to support its business.
In a number of recent meetings I’ve been asked the (very fair) question, Why OpenCalais and not one of the [...]
(Re purposed from the blog post on http://www.opencalais.com/node/9501)
The Gist: Release 4 of Calais will be a big deal. In that release we’ll go beyond the ability to extract semantic data from your content. We will link that extracted semantic data to datasets from dozens of other information sources, from Wikipedia to Freebase to the CIA [...]
One in a series of posts on cool tools that have been built using the Calais service from Thomson Reuters. I promise a big post on what Calais is, what it does, why we’re doing it and all that jazz in the near future. In the meantime feel free to visit the site (above) or [...]
Time to start talking about great tools that have been built on top of Calais.
Calais is an initiative by Thomson Reuters to provide one of the core building blogs of the Semantic Web: semantic metadata generation. At the core of Calais is a web service that ingests text content, analyzes using natural language processing, machine [...]