Building the Semantic Web with Calais

January 4th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Calais: Connect. Everything.

We want to make all the world’s content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph – we call our piece of it Calais.

What Calais does sounds simple – what you do with it could be simply amazing.

The Core: The Calais Web Service

The Calais Web Service automatically creates rich semantic metadata for the content you submit – in well under a second. Using natural language processing, machine learning and other methods, Calais analyzes your document and finds the entities within it. But, Calais goes well beyond classic entity identification and returns the facts and events hidden within your text as well.

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This metadata gives you the ability to build maps (or graphs or networks) linking documents to people to companies to places to products to events to geographies to… whatever. You can use those maps to improve site navigation, provide contextual syndication, tag and organize your content, create structured folksonomies, filter and de-duplicate news feeds, or analyze content to see if it contains what you care about.

The Tools: A Growing Ecosystem of Calais-Enabled Capabilities

The Calais Web Service is a powerful capability – but using it to deliver value to real people requires applications and the tools to build them. Major focus areas of the Calais initiative are delivering the tools with which to build great applications and fostering the community of developers that will make those applications happen.

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To learn more about the growing set of Calais tools please take a moment to visit the Gallery and Tools sections of the site. The web service is free for commercial and non-commercial use. We’ve sized the initial release to handle millions of requests per day and will scale it as necessary to support our users.

Source: Calais

Сервис Quintura признан одним из лучших альтернативных поисковиков года

January 4th, 2009 by Guest Author
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Другое:  Пресс-служба поискового сервиса Quintura, предоставляющего решения для организации поиска по сайту, аналитики и монетизации для веб-издателей, объявила о признании Quintura второй год подряд одним из лучших альтернативных поисковиков года.

На днях Чарльз Найт (Charles Knight), редактор американского сайта об альтернативных поисковых системах AltSearchEngines.com, опубликовал список 10 лучших альтернативных поисковиков 2008 года. Quintura второй год подряд попадает в эту десятку.

По мнению Найта, шаблон Google – страница с поисковой строкой в центре – уходит в прошлое: «Это не значит, что пользователям уже не приходится сообщать то, что они ищут. Просто наметилась тенденция перехода от строки к разнообразию в поиске». Он считает, что 2009 год станет переломным годом, когда отдача перевесит риски – по крайней мере, для продвинутых пользователей. Для всех остальных это произойдёт в 2010 году.

Источник: unix.org.ua

Search engine Quintura recognized as one of the best alternative search engines this year.

Press-services for search engine Quintura, provider of solutions for site search, analytics and monetization for Web publishers, has announced the recognition of Quintura for the second consecutive year as one of the best alternative search engines of the year.

Recently, Charles Knight, the American editor of the site of the alternative search engines AltSearchEngines.com, published a list of 10 best alternative search engines in 2008. Quintura enters for the second year in a row in the top ten.

According to Knight, the template Google – page with the search box in the center – is becoming a thing of the past: That does not mean that users no longer have to communicate what they are looking for. There is just a trend moving from linear results to diversity in the search results. He believes that 2009 will be a watershed year, when the returns of downloads will outweigh the risks – at least for advanced users. For everyone else, this will happen in 2010.

Russian source: unix.org.ua

Weekend fun – QuoteStumbler / Search

January 4th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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QuoteStumbler is a fun little tool that will help you discover new quotes.

The QuoteStumbler database consists of roughly 18,000 quotes by famous authors, politicians, and other historical figures. When you first visit the page, you will be presented with a randomly selected quote. In that quote, certain words will be highlighted. When you click on one of those words, a new quote starting with that word will be displayed. If you like what you find here, it would be greatly appreciated if you would share this with your friends!

Find a Quote

Looking for something in particular? Type in a name or some text, and we’ll see what we can dig up.

Search for lost User Manuals with Diplodocs

January 4th, 2009 by Mark Thompson
Posted in Reviews, Verticals | 1 Comment »

logo_240Have you ever wondered what happened to that manual to your universal remote or your Casio 250HD? At Diplodocs, you can download user manuals, guides, instructions, and owner’s manuals to over 5,600 brands.

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With over 1.4 million user guides, Diplodocs has become the largest database for user manuals on the internet. Search by “product”, “brand”, or category to easily find what you are looking for. Find manuals from top name brands like Acer, Dell, JVC, Samsung, and Whirlpool.

Diplodocs provides the ability for you to upload your own user guides that can be added to the database or kept private for your access only. This allows you to keep an electronic copy of all of your user manuals so you will never have to worry about losing a manual again.

You can also utilize their forum to ask and answer questions about products you have purchased. This community makes it easy to get product reviews, user feedback, and find troubleshooting answers. No matter what your product question is, add it to the forum and let someone who has resolved the problem, help you.

Stop wasting time trying to find that manual to a product you purchased years ago. Use the Diplodocs database to find, add, and store electronic copies of all of your manuals, guides and instructions.

Machine translation run amuck

January 4th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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