Open Calais @ Transparent Text
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Quick intro to OpenCalais as semantic plumbing, as presented by Tom Tague (@TomTague) at IBM's Transparent Text conference (#tt09).
Open Calais @ Transparent Text
- 1. OpenCalais Transparent Text Sep 21, 2009
- 2. Things I Dont Have to Talk About Theres lots of text in the world Most of the worlds knowledge is in text You should stop ignoring it If youre going to work with text it needs structure
- 3. Today Going to cover three things The text problem in one slide What is OpenCalais? What does it do? A few examples of how people are and could use it Sorry no pretty visualizations
- 4. The Text Problem (aka Why OpenCalais?) Target areas where: The economics dont support metadata creation The value of metadata is potentially high The value of aggregated metadata is potentially extremely high Seconds Years Seconds Years Tweets New Gen News Legacy News Scient. Pubs Great Novels Latency Shelf Life
- 5. OpenCalais OpenCalais extracts smart metadata from unstructured text and links that metadata to the Linked Data cloud.
- 6. Calais progress to date Launched in late January, 2008 15,000+ developers have joined OpenCalais.com 3-5 million content transactions per day Delivered six major update releases Free (as in free) for commercial or non-commercial use
- 7. OpenCalais 101 John Doe, the CEO of Acme Corporation, announced today the appointment of Jane Doe as the companys Chief Financial Officer. Person {John Doe} Person {Jane Doe} Company {Acme Corp} Person:Position {Person: John Doe} {Position: CEO} {Company: Acme Corp} JobChange {Person: JaneDoe} {Position: CFO} {Company: Acme Corp} {Status: Entering} Business Finance 97% Entities Facts Events Category
- 8. Unstructured Text Calais extracts entities, facts and events Metadata returned to the user with keys Keys provide access to the Calais Linked Data cloud Which provides information and other Linked Data pointers To a range of open and partner Linked data assets, including Thomson Reuters 1 2 3 4 5 6
- 9. Quick Demo
- 10. How is OpenCalais Being Used Today?
- 11. Triage aka Improving the SNR OpenCalais Rules
- 12. Unification of Diverse Content Assets News1 OpenCalais Common Coding / Ontology Press Releases News2 Give me documents where John Doe is mentioned in relationship to an M&A event
- 13. Event Stream Analysis Text Stream (News, etc) Analysis OpenCalais
- 14. Investigative Networks Government Contract Documents Birth, Death, Wedding & News Person:Person Person:Company BusinessAlliance Person Person Person:Person Person:Company BusinessAlliance FamilyRelation OpenCalais OpenCalais
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- #2: First draft, with beautiful work by Sagit. Note that ALL text is editable.