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by garysieling 4785 days ago
Yes, that is certainly true. The other issue with the technique I see is if I tried to scale this I'd probably hit some maturity issues with these libraries.

For what it's worth, it looks like DocumentCloud uses Open Calais, which is a Thomson Reuters product - I used to work there in a different division, they have a bunch of interesting products in this space.
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knowtheory 4785 days ago
Oh neat, what'd you do at Thomson Reuters?

I notice your blog is filled with NLP related goodies. I've been meaning to screw around with Stanford NER lib, to see if i can train up some custom recognizers for particular document domains of any utility.

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garysieling 4785 days ago
I worked on a bunch of products, but the longest term one was the a side-product to WestLaw, Firm360, which was a market research tool for law firms that came from an acquisition (FindLaw). I worked on some of the data-warehousing stuff, and got to talk to a lot of people who worked on the content side. There were some teams near me that did similar things (People Map / KeyCite).
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MWil 4785 days ago
Thank you for posting this and for your hard work at TR. I'm developing something related to this stuff - http://youtu.be/3m194rui52Q (it's a really old video!)

Uses some sorts of social Open Calais-type activities

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