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Open Calais Semantic Web Search Tool

25 points by da5e 16y ago

mkramlich 16y ago
For some reason my brain read that as "Open Calacanis (...)" and I pictured a web search tool site where EVERY result was a link to a page on Mahalo. Then I woke up screaming.
- Jim_Neath 16y ago
  I did exactly the same thing.
  - Uchikoma 16y ago
    Hate to say it, but: Me too.
    - deleted 16y ago
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    - jasonmcalacanis 16y ago
      funny.
nader 16y ago
Open Calais is already around for some time and evolved greatly. It's especially interesting when you input text about the BP Oil Spill.
- pier0 16y ago
  Open Calacanis has been around for some time as well and now is trying to evolve into a pro poker player. He's especially interesting when he's trying to deny Mahalo spamming techniques and pretending to delete his facebook account.
jashkenas 16y ago
If you'd like to play around with what the Calais API provides, I've just added support for it on http://apiplayground.org http://apiplayground.org Paste in the text from a newspaper article, for example, and it'll show you tables of some of the entities that are extracted. If you're interested in seeing what the back-end that services the API calls looks like (Node.js, so that it doesn't block), take a look here: http://github.com/jashkenas/api-playground/blob/master/src/app.coffee http://github.com/jashkenas/api-playground/blob/master/src/a...
TomTague 16y ago
First, thanks for building the demo tool! If you'd like to see the really interesting stuff that OpenCalais extracts head over to http://viewer.opencalais.com http://viewer.opencalais.com. OpenCalais goes well beyond entities and extracts relevant facts and events as well. Entities are just what's in the news - events are what's happening.
- jashkenas 16y ago
  Good call. The API Playground just has some surface-level results from different APIs. The OpenCalais viewer is much more comprehensive.
iamelgringo 16y ago
I'm using it on http://Newsley.com http://Newsley.com. I'm particularly interested in building support for the events/facts OpenCalais extracts, but I'm only part way through rebuilding the back end. I'm also really excited to use it along with publicly linked data sets. Currently, I'm extracting entities that are above a certain relevance threshold for each article. e.g. http://newsley.com/articles/developing-countries-set-to-account-for-nearly-60-of-world-gdp-by-2030-according-to-new-estimates/2550 http://newsley.com/articles/developing-countries-set-to-acco... It's a great api. You can push 50k articles a day through their system for free. 2 million articles a day is $2000 a month.

25 points by da5e 16y ago

For some reason my brain read that as "Open Calacanis (...)" and I pictured a web search tool site where EVERY result was a link to a page on Mahalo. Then I woke up screaming.

Jim_Neath 16y ago
I did exactly the same thing.
- Uchikoma 16y ago
  Hate to say it, but: Me too.
  - deleted 16y ago
    [deleted]
  - jasonmcalacanis 16y ago
    funny.

nader 16y ago

Open Calais is already around for some time and evolved greatly. It's especially interesting when you input text about the BP Oil Spill.

pier0 16y ago
Open Calacanis has been around for some time as well and now is trying to evolve into a pro poker player. He's especially interesting when he's trying to deny Mahalo spamming techniques and pretending to delete his facebook account.

jashkenas 16y ago

If you'd like to play around with what the Calais API provides, I've just added support for it on http://apiplayground.org http://apiplayground.org Paste in the text from a newspaper article, for example, and it'll show you tables of some of the entities that are extracted. If you're interested in seeing what the back-end that services the API calls looks like (Node.js, so that it doesn't block), take a look here: http://github.com/jashkenas/api-playground/blob/master/src/app.coffee http://github.com/jashkenas/api-playground/blob/master/src/a...

TomTague 16y ago

First, thanks for building the demo tool! If you'd like to see the really interesting stuff that OpenCalais extracts head over to http://viewer.opencalais.com http://viewer.opencalais.com. OpenCalais goes well beyond entities and extracts relevant facts and events as well. Entities are just what's in the news - events are what's happening.

jashkenas 16y ago
Good call. The API Playground just has some surface-level results from different APIs. The OpenCalais viewer is much more comprehensive.

iamelgringo 16y ago

I'm using it on http://Newsley.com http://Newsley.com. I'm particularly interested in building support for the events/facts OpenCalais extracts, but I'm only part way through rebuilding the back end. I'm also really excited to use it along with publicly linked data sets. Currently, I'm extracting entities that are above a certain relevance threshold for each article. e.g. http://newsley.com/articles/developing-countries-set-to-account-for-nearly-60-of-world-gdp-by-2030-according-to-new-estimates/2550 http://newsley.com/articles/developing-countries-set-to-acco... It's a great api. You can push 50k articles a day through their system for free. 2 million articles a day is $2000 a month.