Solr can do a simple facet seach like FAST, but the entity extraction demands other tecnologies. I do not know how FAST does it but at the company I´m working on (www.cortex-intelligence.com), we use a mix of statistical and language-specific tasks to recognize and categorize entities in the text. Ling Pipe is another tool (free) that does that too. In case you would like to see a simple demo: http://www.cortex-intelligence.com/tech/
Rossini On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Charlie Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > During a recent sales pitch to my company by FAST, they mentioned entity > extraction. I'd never heard of it before, but they described it as > basically recognizing people/places/things in documents being indexed > and then being able to do faceting on this data at query time. Does > anything like this already exist in SOLR? If not, I'm not opposed to > developing it myself, but I could use some pointers on where to start. > > > > Thanks, > > - Charlie > >
