Extractiv Launches "Semantics as a Service" Platform

Extractiv has quietly launched a service that crawls the Web for text on a specific topic, then transforms it into “structured semantic data.” It’s a direct competitor to Thomson Reuters’ Calais product, which has been doing this for a couple of years now . This type of service is potentially valuable to media companies, search services and monitoring applications – because it turns messy, unorganized HTML content into data that is organized into categories and given other semantic ‘meaning.’ I sat down with Extractiv CEO Shion Deysarkar at the recent Semantic Technology conference in San Francisco, to find out how Extractiv intends to compete with the more well-known and big media backed Calais. Sponsor How Extractiv Works Extractiv is a joint venture between Houston-based web crawling service 80legs and natural language processing company LLC (which created Swingly , a Q&A service )

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Extractiv Launches "Semantics as a Service" Platform