Mashable just published an interesting article about Googles latest advancements in search. The article, Google Knowledge Graph Could Change Search Forever, describes a “developing vision for search that takes it beyond mere words and into the world of entities, attributes and the relationship between those entities.” Google is building a huge knowledge base describing entities, [...]
Entity Extraction, XQuery the Semantic Web and Johnny Depp
Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time dealing with entity extraction software for a client. The premise that most such extraction tools use is fairly similar – by creating an internal pipeline that will break down text into parts of speech and similar constructs, then applying a set of regular expression heuristics, it should [...]

