Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Term Extraction Tools

Revisiting my long dormant toy that uses analysis of song lyrics and Flickr or Google Images to do contextual visualizations. I have implemented a simple ti.idf frequency counter and am getting decent results but wanting for more. In this web 2.0 world maybe I should be looking for services to do this?

Consider:

Yahoo Term Extractor API
Topicalizer
OpenCalais
Alchemy

and mabye Wordnet for synonyms.

Also, possibly relevant is Echonest's colossal db of music metadata intended to spur research into music recommendation / discovery tools.

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