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 > > > > -- > | Rupert Westenthaler rupert.westentha...@gmail.com > | Bodenlehenstraße 11 ++43-699-11108907 > | A-5500 Bischofshofen >