com.knowledgebooks.utils
Class OpenCalaisClient

java.lang.Object
  com.knowledgebooks.utils.OpenCalaisClient

public class OpenCalaisClient
extends java.lang.Object

This is a web services client class for using the Open Calias web service for analysizing text and identifying entities and relationships between entities. You will need a free Open Calais developer's key that should be set in an environment variable of defined on the command line when starting the JVM. This property is obtained using: System.getProperty("OPEN_CALAIS_KEY")

Using Open Calias is optional since KB_bundle includes its own named entity extractor in class Names

Copyright 2002-2008 by Mark Watson. All rights reserved.

This software is not public domain. It can be legally used under either of the following licenses:

1. KnowledgeBooks.com Non Commercial Royality Free License
2. KnowledgeBooks.com Commercial Use License

see www.knowledgebooks.com for details

Constructor Summary

OpenCalaisClient()

Method Summary

java.util.Hashtable<java.lang.String,java.lang.String[]>	getPropertyNamesAndValues(java.lang.String text) A client program to use Reuters News Ope Calais web service.
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

OpenCalaisClient

public OpenCalaisClient()

Method Detail

getPropertyNamesAndValues

public java.util.Hashtable<java.lang.String,java.lang.String[]> getPropertyNamesAndValues(java.lang.String text)

A client program to use Reuters News Ope Calais web service. This can be used as an alternative to the internale KnowledgeBookscom entity extraction classes.

Parameters:

text -

Returns:

Hashtable of properties with associated values list (e.g., property "Person", value list would be a list of names occurring in the input text other properties can be "City","State", "Country", etc.)

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

Parameters:

args -