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Reuters Reaches Out With Open API Semantic Web Service

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The service, which is available at www.opencalais.com, aims to make it easier for publishers, bloggers, and other content producers to automatically metatag their content and to develop their own semantic applications. The Calais Web service turns Reuters’ internal content-tagging system out to the general public.
Last year, Reuters acquired the tagging platform vendor ClearForest, Ltd. and subsequently began to employ that technology to tag its own structured and unstructured data, including internal corporate information as well as the news articles and business information gathered by its global network of reporters and researchers. The Calais release extends those capabilities out to anyone who wants to use them.
To use the free web service, a publisher simply inputs unstructured text and the service returns semantic metadata in RDF format in less than a second. Using natural-language processing and machine learning techniques, Calais locates entities, facts, and events and processes those components into metadata. "Publishers can use this information as auxiliary tags for their content to improve searchability, they can use it to enhance news feeds with better tagging, or any number of other purposes," says Tom Tague, Reuters’ chief evangelist for the Calais project. "As we begin to roll out additional applications, we will have a much richer set of tools."
The first announced bounty of $5,000 will be awarded to the developer who creates a configurable plug-in for WordPress that will enrich blogs with tag auto-suggestion, a semantic cloud, and a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID).