SemanticAnalyzer2

Researches on existing stuff

OpenCalais that does approximately what we're looking for

Proxem is a really good starting point for links and pointers to interesting topics, resources and documentation.

Common vocabulary in Natural Language Processing

Information Retrieval (IR) => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_retrieval

Information Extraction (IE) => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_extraction

Sentence Boundary Disambiguation (SBD) => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_boundary_disambiguation

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_sense_disambiguation

Named Entity Recognition (NER) => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_entity_recognition

Message Understanding Conference (MUC) => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Understanding_Conference

Anaphora => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphora_(linguistics)

Resource Description Framework => http://www.w3.org/RDF/

Linked Data => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data

Common Sense Knowledge Bases => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonsense_knowledge_bases

Categorization => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorization

Documents & Publications

Cours d'introduction à l'analyse sémantique : http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/habert/Cours/PX/IntroductionSemantiqueArticle/IntroductionSemantiqueArticle.html

Web as a Corpus [Kilgariff & Grefenstette(2003)] => http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/Publications/2003-KilgGrefenstette-WACIntro.pdf

Existing resources

Classifications of words :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roget's_Thesaurus (http://machaut.uchicago.edu/rogets)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle's_Categories

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz#Symbolic_thought and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristica_universalis

Suicides ???!

Is NLP a dangerous and depressing profession ? I found 2 references to guys who committed suicide by following only one link from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConceptNet#History (Push Singh) to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindpixel (Chris McKinstry).