[LRUG] Using Ruby for semantic analysis and categorising documents - first steps?

[Matt Haynes]

Similar to wikipedia miner I guess but have you considered also looking 
into a dbpedia type triple store too? Depending on your requirements 
it could prove a useful setup.

In BBC News we recently prototyped a system that first extracts named 
entities from text then cross references them with Wikipedia ID's. From 
that we could pull dbpedia data into a triple store and link it to an 
article.

Once in a triple store the queries we could write were pretty powerful,
for example a query for news articles about "Music" might search
for entities of type musician, bands, orchestra, concert venue, etc.

The prototype was no means perfect - we never really solved disambiguation
or relevancy - but the results were certainly impressive, especially for
me coming in with a more traditional "search" based mindset.

Cheers,

Matt



-----Original Message-----
From: chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org on behalf of Chris Lowis
Sent: Mon 8/20/2012 3:49 PM
To: London Ruby Users Group
Subject: Re: [LRUG] Using Ruby for semantic analysis and categorising documents - first steps?
 
>> I'm trying to spec out a feature at work, to sift through a load of text in
>> case studies or similar articles, and categorise them according to some
>> pre-determined criteria, and present them later to users of an app we're
>> build, to help them discover useful steps their business on take to reduce
>> emissions.

We've (BBC R&D) been doing something similar to this and have had
quite a bit of success using Wikipedia Miner[1], and have also
implemented our own term extraction code to work with noisy
speech-to-text transcripts. Happy to talk more about what we've been
doing with you if it looks like something that might help.

Cheers,

Chris

[1] http://wikipedia-miner.cms.waikato.ac.nz/
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