Comparisons with other text-processing systems

[chenlica]

We want to compare TextDB with other related systems. We will create an issue for each system, and include those issues here.

@xuxip

• [x] AlchemyAPI (IBM Bluemix): https://github.com/AlchemyAPI/alchemyapi_python
• [x] Lingpipe: http://alias-i.com/lingpipe/
• [x] Meta-toolkit: https://meta-toolkit.org/
• [ ] General Architecture for Text Engineering "General Architecture for Text Engineering", which is bundled with a free Information Extraction system
• [x] OpenNLP: https://opennlp.apache.org/index.html
• [ ] OpenCalais Automated information extraction web service from Thomson Reuters (Free limited version)
• [ ] Machine Learning for Language Toolkit (Mallet) is a Java-based package for a variety of natural language processing tasks, including information extraction.
• [ ] DBpedia Spotlight is an open source tool in Java/Scala (and free web service) that can be used for named entity recognition and name resolution.
• [ ] Natural Language Toolkit is a suite of libraries and programs for symbolic and statistical natural language processing (NLP) for the Python programming language
• [x] Apache UIMA: https://uima.apache.org Unstructured Information Management applications are software systems that analyze large volumes of unstructured information in order to discover knowledge that is relevant to an end user. An example UIM application might ingest plain text and identify entities, such as persons, places, organizations; or relations, such as works-for or located-at. (For developers only, provide you a framework that developers can build their own projects)

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[chenlica]

@xuxip @fukoyui Per our discussion last Friday, for your own task, create a separate issue to keep track of the progress. The goal is to use the use case of Zika extraction to understand the behavior of those systems.

[kishore-narendran]

@shirleyqt If I understand correctly, a lot of the above systems have been studied but there are no references to their Wiki pages or the PRs. Could you please update this issue with that information?

[shirleyqt]

@kishore-narendran Sure. Do you mean to update the links in this issue or on the wiki page of TextDB?

[kishore-narendran]

@shirleyqt Update the links here. Yes.

[shirleyqt]

@kishore-narendran I have updated the ones that were evaluated by me and Hailey. For the other parts (unevaluated), do I delete them or update the links and leave them there?

[kishore-narendran]

@shirleyqt Just use the checkboxes in the first comment left by the professor. And we will know