Calais Release 4.6 is Available for Beta Testing [Through 23rd of August]
From the post:
As we mentioned in our prior post, Version 4.6 of OpenCalais is now available for beta testing. While we should have 100% backward compatibility – it’s always a good idea to run a set of transaction through and make sure there are no issues.
You’ll see a number of new things in this release:
- Under the covers we’ve upgraded our core processing engine. While this won’t directly affect you as an end user – it does set the stage for further improvements in the future.
- We’ve improved the quality of the Company and Person extraction. Not surprisingly, these are two of our most frequently used concepts and we want them to be insanely great – we’re getting there.
- We’ve updated and refreshed our Social Tags feature. If you haven’t had a chance to experiment with Social Tags in the past, give it a try. This is a great way to immediately improve the “findability” of your content.
- We’ve introduced six new concepts that we’ll discuss below.
PersonParty extracts information about the affiliation of a person with a political party. CandidatePosition extracts information on past, current and aspirational political positions for a candidate. ArmedAttack extracts information regarding and attack by a person or organization on a country, organization or political figure. MilitaryAction extracts references to non-combative military actions such as troop deployments or movements. ArmsPurchaseSale Extracts information on planned, proposed or consummated arms sales. PersonLocation extracts information on where a person lives or is traveling.
So, it’s the Politics and Conflict pack – always popular topics.
More details at the post (including release notes).
Get your comments in early! Planned end of beta test: 23rd of August 2012.