Hi Rupert,

2013/6/11 Rupert Westenthaler <rupert.westentha...@gmail.com>

> Hi Cristian,
>
> First thanks for your interest in Apache Stanbol.
>
> I am not aware of any ongoing development regarding an Enhancement
> Engine for Relation Extraction. But this would be a great new Feature
> for Apache Stanbol.
>
> Do you already have any idea how you would approach the relation
> extraction problem?


First of all I have to mention that I am new in the field of semantic
technologies, I've started to read about them in the last 4-5 months.Having
said that I have a high level overview of what is a good approach to solve
this problem. There are a number of papers on the internet which describe
what steps need to be taken such as : named entity recognition,
co-reference resolution, pos tagging and others. Of course I would start by
having a set of discussions with the people on this mailing list since you
have a lot of necessary background, in order to establish some clear steps
that I need to take.



> What would you like to use the extracted
> information for?
>

I am an avid reader of socio-political news from all across the globe. I
have a huge amount of bookmarks of news stories. I would be interested to
have a system in which the text from the news pages are transformed in
triples, basically linking web pages to one another. I'd then have the
ability to 1. have a search which would return me straight answers to
questions like "which politicians attended ecological conferences between
1990 and 2000" or "in which cities were there protests that ended with
casualties" and so on and 2. I'd have a graphical representation of my data
which I think may be easier to digest and can see the bigger picture.

You could extend this to say indexing of criminal prosecutions or trial
transcripts. Some lawyer working on a case could have access to a datastore
consisting of indexed trial transcripts from the EU. This lawyer could
search for something like "show all cases in which the prosecuted is a
murderer and was aquitted on terms of insanity and had no aliby".
Perhaps you could also extend it to a financial or medical application.

>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Cristian Petroaca
> <cristian.petro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > My name is Cristian Petroaca, I am a 29 year old java developer from
> > Bucharest, Romania. I've just joined the Stanbol mailing list. I've been
> > playing with the source code for a few months now and I find the whole
> > project pretty interesting. I was wondering first of all if there already
> > is a Relation Extraction feature ( something like
> > http://www.alchemyapi.com/api/relation/ ) in development for the Stanbol
> > stack and in case there is what is the procedure to become a committer?
>
> Typically people will get invited to become a committer after they
> have become part of the community and made some contributions [1].
>
> I understand. Actually my goal at this time is to be able to contribute to
Apache Stanbol. I initally thought that being a committer would give you
this right. As I see it being a contributor would suffice for now.


> best
> Rupert
>
>
Thanks for the answers,
Cristian


> [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/contributors.html
>
> > I am very interested in the potential applications of such a feature and
> > the possibility of having the feature part of an open source project.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Cristian Petroaca
>
>
>
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