Verity sold a lot of features based on "we might need it at some point." Very few people deployed the advanced features. They just didn't need them.
wunder On 10/27/08 9:27 AM, "Charlie Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, when they first mentioned it, my initial thought was "cool, but we don't > need it." However, some of the higher ups in the company are saying we might > want it at some point, so I've been asked to look into it. I'll be sure to let > them know about the flaws in the concept, thanks for that info. > > ____________________________________________ > Charlie Jackson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Walter Underwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 11:17 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Entity extraction? > > The vendor mentioned entity extraction, but that doesn't mean you need it. > Entity extraction is a pretty specific technology, and it has been a > money-losing product at many companies for many years, going back to > Xerox ThingFinder well over ten years ago. > > My guess is that very few people really need entity extraction. > > Using EE for automatic taxonomy generation is even harder to get right. > At best, that is a way to get a starter set of categories that you can > edit. You will not get a production quality taxonomy automatically. > > wunder > > On 10/27/08 8:31 AM, "Charlie Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> True, though I may be able to convince the powers that be that it's worth the >> investment. >> >> There are a number of open source or free tools listed on the Wikipedia entry >> for entity extraction >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_entity_recognition#Open_source_or_free) >> -- >> does anyone have any experience with any of these? >> >> ____________________________________________ >> Charlie Jackson >> 312-873-6537 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 10:23 AM >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Entity extraction? >> >> For the record, LingPipe is not free. It's good, but it's not free. >> >> >> Otis >> -- >> Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >>> From: Rafael Rossini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >>> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 6:08:14 PM >>> Subject: Re: Entity extraction? >>> >>> 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 >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >> >> >> > > >
