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Product data / events
Posted on: Fri, 01/30/2009 - 15:39
bobjones00
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I tried the below text in both the Calais Viewer and the Calais 4.0 Preview Viewer - and
was suprised by the lack of identification of things like iPhone, Apple, iPod, iPod Touch ?

I thought 4.0 was including more product data? Or did I get that wrong?

Bob

 

MacRumors has discovered that Apple's iPhone 2.x Firmware has evidence of the next generation iPhone which has been designated "iPhone2,1".

Apple uses these models numbers to distinguish between different hardware models. The original iPhone carries the model number of "iPhone 1,1" while the 3G iPhone is labeled "iPhone 1,2". These numbers do not change for simple storage increases and instead represent functionally different devices. Similarly, the iPod Touch was originally introduced as the "iPod 1,1" and the most recent hardware revision was labeled "iPod2,1". The 2,1 iPod Touch added a speaker, volume controls, microphone support and a much faster processor than the 1st generation model. This new model number can be found in the USBDeviceConfiguration.plist in an unencrypted firmware.

Meanwhile, at least one developer has noticed actual "iPhone2,1" models in use based on

PinchMedia

ad serving reports. (Other numbers blurred out).

Rumors

of the next generation iPhone point to the support of Multi-Core CPUs and possibly Multi-Core GPUs from Imagination Technologies. Apple has been building a team of chip engineers over the past year to participate in their own ARM processor designs that will presumably be used in future iPhones.

Schiller

previously outlined Apple's natural product timelines and acknowledged that June is the usual timeframe for major iPhone revisions, although storage increases could happen at any time.

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Marie-Eve,
Posted on: Sun, 04/19/2009 - 04:59 #1
Gil
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OpenCalais is not only about extracting entities out of closed lists, that wouldn't be too innovative :)

It also identifies them according to contextual evidences. For example, in the sentence (taken from an FDA webpage): "It must meet the dissolution standard for Aspirin tablets as contained in USP 23 at page 134."

If you send us the texts you're working on, we can look into it,

Drug Products detection
Posted on: Mon, 04/20/2009 - 11:09 #2
Marie-Eve.Racicot
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Thanks for the answer, I figured Calais was samrt enough to detect drug produsing NPL however, in seeing the results, I thought that maybe it was used in conjunction with a list of predefined terms. Here are a few samples:

sample 1
"Clopidogrel+Aspirin tx lowers stroke risk in atrial fib pat. who can't use vitamin K agonist. "
 
In this case, vitamin K is picked up as a product but not Aspirin. If I change Aspirin to Tylenol, then  both Tylenol and vitamin K are picked up.
 
Sample 2:
 
Clopidogrel added to aspirin  therapy lowers stroke risk in atrial fib patients who can't use vitamin K agonist.
 
Same situation here. Aspriin is not picked up althugh  change it to Tylenol and Tylenol is picked up.
 
In both cases Clopidogrel  is not picked up.
 
 
Same situation here. Aspriin is not picked up althugh  change it to Tylenol and Tylenol is picked up.
 

thanks for your help,

M-E

identification of electronic Products
Posted on: Mon, 02/02/2009 - 08:12 #3
Gil
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Bob,

First of all, you're right!

As a matter of fact, in this new release (R4) we focused on extracting a few types of electronic products, and now we indeed work on improving this for the next release.  

 

Identification of drugs
Posted on: Thu, 04/16/2009 - 14:27 #4
Marie-Eve.Racicot
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I'm currently evaluating OpenCalais for drug related content and noticed that some very basic drugs such as Aspirin don't seem to be recognize by Calais.

Is there a way I can look at the list of terms considered as drugs by Calais? Is there any plan to improve the drug dictionnary?

thanks a lot,

M-E

 

fair enough :)
Posted on: Thu, 02/05/2009 - 12:09 #5
bobjones00
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Thanks for answer