== Calais
A Ruby interface to the Open Calais Web Service (http://opencalais.com)
== Features
* Accepts documents in text/plain, text/xml and text/html format.
* Basic access to the Open Calais API's Enlighten action.
* Output is RDF representation of input document.
* Single function ability to extract names, entities and geographies from given text.
== Synopsis
This is a very basic wrapper to the Open Calais API. It uses the POST endpoint and currently supports the Enlighten action. Here's a simple call:
Calais.enlighten(:content => "The government of the United Kingdom has given corporations like fast food chain McDonald's the right to award high school qualifications to employees who complete a company training program.", :content_type => :text, :license_id => LICENSE_ID)
This is the easiest way to get the RDF-formated response from the OpenCalais service.
If you want to do something more fun like getting all sorts of fun information about a document, you can try this:
Calais.process_document(:content => "The government of the United Kingdom has given corporations like fast food chain McDonald's the right to award high school qualifications to employees who complete a company training program.", :content_type => :text, :license_id => LICENSE_ID)
This will return an object containing information extracted from the RDF response.
== Requirements
* Ruby 1.8.5 or better
* Uses the following standard libraries: digest/sha1, net/http, yaml, cgi
* libxml2 / libxml-ruby
* curb, libcurl
== Install
You can install the Calais gem via Rubygems (gem install calais) or by building from source.
== Authors
Abhay Kumar
http://opensynapse.net
== Acknowledgements
* Paul Legato (http://www.economaton.com/). Help all around with the new response processor and implementation of the latest API.
