Thanks for the replies, guys, that gives me a good place to start looking.
- Charlie -----Original Message----- From: Rogerio Pereira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 5:14 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Entity extraction? You can find more about this topic in this book availabe at amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Building-Search-Applications-Lucene-Lingpipe/dp/0615204252/ 2008/10/24 Rafael Rossini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 < > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 > > > > > -- Regards, Rogério (_rogerio_) [Blog: http://faces.eti.br] [Sandbox: http://bmobile.dyndns.org] [Twitter: http://twitter.com/ararog] "Faça a diferença! Ajude o seu país a crescer, não retenha conhecimento, distribua e aprenda mais." (http://faces.eti.br/2006/10/30/conhecimento-e-amadurecimento)
