Hi Vinay,

Perhaps you could say more about what you are looking for? What use cases, say.
Did you see the book _Taming Text_?

Thanks
Jack

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Vinay B, <vybe3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A few questions, some specific to UIMA, others more general.
> 1. The SOLR/UIMA example employs 3rd party (some of which are
> commercial) semantic APIs such as AlchemyApi and OpenCalais. This
> won't do for our application (semantic analysis of large numbers of
> plain text files) . Are there any open source alternatives that work
> with SOLR and can achieve the same results.  OpenNLP can extract parts
> of speech and extract names etc but isn't really meant for concept
> extraction.
> 2. Regardless of the caveat mentioned above, can someone illustrate a
> usecase for UIMA annotations . i.e. what kind of queries can be
> performed once a document has been processed via the UIMA plugin
> 3. Does (or can) SOLR have any disambiguation functionality (either
> native or via a 3rd party plugin) and if so, how can I leverage it.
> Once again OpenNLP has a part of speech tagger that could possibly be
> used for this.
> eg. if doc 1 contains text "This pipe is made of lead" (lead is a
> noun) and doc 2 contains  text "Lincoln lead by example" (lead is a
> verb) , how would I phrase a query intended to return docs that
> countain the term "lead" as a verb. If there's a link that explains
> how to do this, please do post it.
>
> Apparantly SIREN (http://siren.sindice.com/index.html) has some of
> this functionality (and more) built in but the documentation and use
> cases are a bit sketchy. It also hasn't been updated in a year. Does
> anyone know if it will be compatable with future SOLR / Lucene
> releases.
>
> Thanks for your responses.

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