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Basic Noobie question
Posted on: Wed, 02/18/2009 - 16:10
pitosalas
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I read all around the site and the fora and there's just something very basic/fundamental that I'd like to clarify...

 

Is it correct that the crux of the functionality of Calais is to take a body of free text (like and article or anything else) and analyze it for semantic content, like who, what where, etc.

Or is there other fundamental functionality? For example, say I have a name, "George Bush" or "Microsoft" can I ask Calais to tell me that one is an x-president and the other is a corporation, etc?

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Text too short
Posted on: Sat, 02/21/2009 - 04:47 #1
pierre
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Hi Pitosalas,

"Is it correct that the crux of the functionality of Calais is to take a body of free text (like and article or anything else) and analyze it for semantic content, like who, what where, etc."

--> Yes

"Or is there other fundamental functionality? For example, say I have a name, "George Bush" or "Microsoft" can I ask Calais to tell me that one is an x-president and the other is a corporation, etc?"

-> Calais API won't work here, it will return a "Text to short" error.

Cf (Calais webservice API doc):

"If the submitted content is less than 100 characters and the language cannot be recognized, Calais will assume the language is English by default and will process the text for entities, events and facts. In addition, in such cases, Calais will return "Input Text Too Short" as the language code in the RDF."

 

Regards,

 

Pierre