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ClearForest Semantic Web Services (SWS) is an experiment in deploying to the broader web community a portion of the high-end text-mining technology ClearForest has developed over the last decade.

ClearForest has developed a suite of language processing tools to extract meaning from text. Then they went ahead and implemented a web services layer on top of their suite of tools to expose the functionality as services to the general public.

Let me quote an example usage from their website which gives you a flavor of the power of this tool:

If you hand SWS a lengthy news article about, say, a corporate merger - here’s what you’ll get back in nice structured XML: 1) All of the people mentioned in the article, 2) all of the organizations mentioned, 4) all of the companies mentioned and 4) all geographies.

There are three ways to access ClearForest Semantic Web Services:

• Through the web interface. This is a good starting point to see how things work.
• Via web services. To get started with that see API Specifications.
• With Gnosis - very cool Firefox plug-in extension.

They had a mashup contest and here are some of the winning entries from there:

• http://www.optevi.net/newstracker (newstracker)
• http://www.hype-list.com (hype-list)
• http://www.francisshanahan.com/sixdegrees
• http://semanticsearcher.com

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