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OpenCalais on Jobs Data
Calais is a web service from Reuters based on the natural language processing (NLP) technology they acquired along with software company ClearForest. Reuters are making powerful entity extraction and semantic algorithms available free ...
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Calais 2.0 unveiled by Thomson Reuters
In a press release to coincide with this week's Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, Thomson Reuters subsidiary ClearForest has announced a major upgrade to their OpenCalais web service; Calais 2.0. Calais was originally launched in January of...
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Calais 2.0 unveiled by Thomson Reuters (ZDNet)
In a press release to coincide with this week's Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, Thomson Reuters subsidiary ClearForest has announced a major upgrade to their OpenCalais web service; Calais 2.0. Calais was originally launched in January of...
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ClearForest Wiki
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ClearForest, ClearForest Corporation Type Private Founded 1998 Headquarters Waltham, MA Key people Barak Pridor, CEO Dr. Yonatan Aumann, Cofounder and VP of Product Strategy Industry computer software Products ClearForest Text Analytics Suite Employees 60+ (2006) Website www.clearforest.com ClearForest is a software company that develops and markets text analytics and text mining solutions. Founded in 1998, ClearForest has its headquarters just outside of Boston and has development in Israel near Tel Aviv. ClearForest was acquired by Reuters in April, 2007. It was previously venture-backed; its most recent funding round, led by Greylock, closed in 2005. Other investors include DB Capital Partners, Pitango, Walden Israel, Booz-Allen, JP Morgan Partners and HarbourVest. Contents 1 Recent Events 2 Solutions and Products 3 See also 4 External links
[edit] Recent Events On February 7, 2008 Reuters announced the launch of Calais, an open source environment that utilizes the ClearForest technology. On April 30, 2007, Reuters announced that it would acquire ClearForest. Sources estimate the acquisition to be for $25 Million.
[edit] Solutions and Products ClearForest offers several hosted solutions, including: Calais, an open-source web service that enables automatic metadata generation using the ClearForest financial module. Semantic Web Services (SWS) , an on-demand service that makes ClearForest's sophisticated natural language processing tools available as a standard web service. In order to allow the development community to explore the value of building innovative applications and services that leverage semantic processing, a subset of ClearForest's capabilities is available via SWS at no cost. Gnosis, a free Firefox extension that uses SWS to analyze the content of a web page. With a single click, Gnosis will identify the people, companies, organizations, geographies and products on the page you are viewing. Gnosis also automatically processes pages from Wikipedia itself - providing additional links for people, geographies and other entities which were not explicitly linked within the subject article. Harvest, a real-time machine readable news service that uses SWS to process a company's news and document feeds and instantly return machine-readable information about people, companies, locations and over 200 other entities facts and events. ClearForest also offers Text Analytics solutions targeted at specific business problems, including: Improved equity valuations for hedge funds &alternative investments firms Metadata & database creation for publishers and information providers/services Tapping " voice of customer" for market and survey research firms Quality Early Warning for vehicle, capital equipment &durable goods manufacturers
[edit] See also Text mining Text analytics Natural language processing Named entity recognition Computational linguistics Business intelligence Data mining Semantic Web Web 2.0 List of Firefox extensions
[edit] External links ClearForest web site ClearForest semantic web services and Gnosis Firefox extension web site Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearForest" Categories: Software companies of the United States | Natural language processing | Computational linguistics | Companies established in 1998
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