Run from Java or Scala

This is how to use DBpedia Spotlight from your code.

Running a local installation

From Scala

You can use our factory that builds objects for you based on the configuration file.

import org.dbpedia.spotlight.annotate.DefaultParagraphAnnotator
import org.dbpedia.spotlight.disambiguate.{TwoStepDisambiguator, ParagraphDisambiguatorJ}
import org.dbpedia.spotlight.model.SpotlightConfiguration
import org.dbpedia.spotlight.model.SpotlightFactory
  val text = new String("Brazilian oil giant Petrobras and U.S. oilfield service company Halliburton have signed a technological cooperation agreement, Petrobras announced Monday. The two companies agreed on three projects: studies on contamination of fluids in oil wells, laboratory simulation of well production, and research on solidification of salt and carbon dioxide formations, said Petrobras. Twelve other projects are still under negotiation.")
  val configuration = new SpotlightConfiguration("conf/server.properties")
  val factory = new SpotlightFactory(configuration)
  val disambiguator = new ParagraphDisambiguatorJ(new TwoStepDisambiguator(factory.candidateSearcher, factory.contextSearcher))
  val spotter = factory.spotter()
  val annotator = new DefaultParagraphAnnotator(spotter, disambiguator);
  println(annotator.annotate(text))

Note:If no word is spotted,it may throw an "empty list" exception.

Calling our Web Service

From Java

See: DBpediaSpotlightClient