True, though I may be able to convince the powers that be that it's worth the investment.
There are a number of open source or free tools listed on the Wikipedia entry for entity extraction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_entity_recognition#Open_source_or_free) -- does anyone have any experience with any of these? ____________________________________________ Charlie Jackson 312-873-6537 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 10:23 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Entity extraction? For the record, LingPipe is not free. It's good, but it's not free. Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Rafael Rossini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 6:08:14 PM > Subject: Re: Entity extraction? > > 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 > > 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 > > > >
