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POSTER ABSTRACTS
Abstract
Fietstas: a web service for text analysis
Jijkoun, Valentin and de Rijke, Maarten and Vishneuski, Andrei
University of Amsterdam
We present Fietstas: a open-access web service for text analysis, created with the idea
of simplifying building text-intensive applications. As a web service, Fietstas consists of
(1) a simple content management component, where users can upload their content
with metadata, (2) a collection of text processing components, from tokenization to
named entity extraction and normalization, (3) a component for accessing/visualizing
document processing results (e.g., as XML or HTML), and (4) data analysis component
for generating term-cloud-based summaries and timelines. The functionality is
available through easy-to-use REST interface (i.e., through standard HTTP requests),
and moreover, a number of APIs are available (e.g., for Python and Perl). In this
presentation, we briefly describe Fietstas and demonstrate how its functionality can be
used in a simple web application (news search and analysis).
Corresponding author: jijkoun@uva.nl
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