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Underlying technology?

I'm just curious - what is the underlying extraction technology being used to extract places from unstructured text? Is it something developed by Yahoo! or a third-party technology?

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  • QUOTE (Natasha L @ May 21 2009, 06:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    I'm just curious - what is the underlying extraction technology being used to extract places from unstructured text? Is it something developed by Yahoo! or a third-party technology?


    Hi Natasha - this is a technology which was developed within Yahoo! Geoinformatics group.
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  • QUOTE (Roman Kirillov @ May 21 2009, 11:14 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hi Natasha - this is a technology which was developed within Yahoo! Geoinformatics group.


    To add to Roman's response, we use our underlying, internally developed, geo-technology to provide the "heavy lifting" of geo-parsing, geo-identification and geo-enrichment for Placemaker, GeoPlanet, Fire Eagle, Flickr and many other Yahoo! products and services.

    -Gary
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  • QUOTE (Vicchi @ May 26 2009, 10:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    To add to Roman's response, we use our underlying, internally developed, geo-technology to provide the "heavy lifting" of geo-parsing, geo-identification and geo-enrichment for Placemaker, GeoPlanet, Fire Eagle, Flickr and many other Yahoo! products and services.

    -Gary



    Hey Gary,

    Is there any chance of making this underlying, internally developed, geo-technology open-source?
    It's really great, and works very well, but not perfect. I think that the community could contribute a lot to improving it.

    Cheeers,
    Elad
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