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Person's name returned as company tag
Posted on: Wed, 09/07/2011 - 03:43
Andreas Koepke
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 We have been using OpenCalais for a month now on our Drupal-powered news site and have noticed the odd issue with the content being returned. I have attached a copy of the article text we are sending.
The company metadata being returned is as follows:

  • Burrup Fertilisers Pty Ltd
  • Burrup Hoildings
  • Mr Oswal 

The  first two are right, but the last one isn't. Mr Oswal is being returned as a company when it is a reference to the person Pankaj Oswal. Using the viewer I can see the first instance of Mr Oswal is being related to him but the other instances are not, they are going to the "company" metadata term instead.
Do you have any idea as to why this would be happening?

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Person identified as a company
Posted on: Mon, 09/12/2011 - 11:00 #1
FranSan
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Andreas,

Thanks for submitting this. I ran the article text through our Document Viewer - http://viewer.opencalais.com/ - which should return the same results as OpenCalais. Mr. Oswal was identified 11 times as a person.

I'll ask the technical staff to examine. If you are using the Drupal module, you should post your query on their site - http://drupal.org/project/opencalais.

Regards,