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The OpenCalais is a Web Service. The OpenCalais Web Service automatically creates rich semantic metadata for the content you submit – in well under a second. Using natural language processing (NLP), machine learning and other methods, Calais analyzes your document and finds the entities within it.

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Understanding Relevance Score of OpenCalais

I am trying to understand what is the relevance score that opencalais returns associated with each entity? What does it signify and how is it to be interpreted? I would be thankful for insights into this.
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How can I add RDF result from opencalais into apache solr for better search result in my Drupal site?

Add RDF result from opencalais into apache solr for Indexing. I am using solr search integration module's development version(solr 4.x), Opencalais module and Drupal 7. Currently Indexing from taxonomy fields generated by opencalais.
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Intelligently extracting tags from blogs and other web pages

I'm not talking about HTML tags, but tags used to describe blog posts, or youtube videos or questions on this site. If I was crawling just a single website, I'd just use an xpath to extract the tag out, or even a regex if it's simple. But I'd like…
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Why are my calls to these content engines failing when behind a proxy?

I am testing a couple of APIs and am undecided between Zemanta and OpenCalais. I can use both perfectly at home, but at the company behind the proxy, they won't work, even when running the same examples. I am running this example and this, both…
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What commercially-available platforms similar to OpenCalais or AlchemyAPI are there for entity extraction for Chinese and Japanese languages?

In particular, I would like to be able to extract people, places, films, music, etc. entities and have the entities available in widely used linked data IDs such as DBpedia, Freebase, or OpenCyc.
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Multilanguage OpenCalais like system?

I was very impressed with the OpenCalais system. It's (is/has) a web service where you send your text, they analyze it, then you are provided with a series of categorized (RDF enabled) tags that your document belongs to. But - at the moment -…
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OpenCalais Parse RDF in .NET

is there a way to parse OpenCalais RDF in .NET as i'm using dotnetRDF and it keeps giving me errors. A sample of the Rdf generated may be found in http://viewer.opencalais.com/ , i'm honestly really lost and would really appreciate any help! please…
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Charset encoding errors in French documents with Open Calais

I'm trying to make a simple call to the OpenCalais API to do entity tagging in a raw document written in French (so there are lots of accented characters). In the returned response, all accented characters are transformed to strange symbols. I…
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Change substrings with multiple values using offset and length

I am working on pulling data from OpenCalais API and here are the details: Input: Some paragraph (a string e.g. "Barack Obama is the President of United States." Also, what gets returned is some instance variables with offsets and lengths but not…
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OpenCalais can't view importance value

I'm using the PHP-OpenCalais library to extract data from pieces of text. A var_dump of the entity gives something like this: Array ( [IndustryTerm] => Array ( [0] => Internet [1] => software…
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Calais Gem can't convert nil into String

I'm using the Calais gem with Ruby 1.9.3 and when I use the following code snippet: rdf = Calais.process_document( :content => text, :content_type => :html, :license_id => 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', # :output_format =>…
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How to resolve SocketTimeoutException

I have a program that uses a web service called OpenCalais,using it's REST API.The codes are working,it is just that sometimes Eclipse throws an exception on the console when I run the program.How do I resolve this?Below is the…
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Content analysis - given terms relevance score

We are thinking to use the existing Content analysis service API to return the given terms relevance score in the article. Found some very good content analysis service such as: Yahoo Content analysis service OpenCalais ... However, we are looking…
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Using an ontology XML document to help parse RDF data

I'm working with Open Calais and am trying to parse RDF/XML data that's being returned from the API. I can't make my own parser because the data for the same type is sometimes different depending on how much info there is-