Learning more about Swingly and Extractiv
January 27th, 2010 Posted in Blog
Wanted to post some quick breadcrumbs for people interested in learning more about the two early-stage startups coming from Language Computer.
Swingly (http://www.swingly.com)
- Who? Alpha-stage question-answering company capable of finding answers in the Web of unstructured text
- Our goal? Answer users questions from content locked up in text.
- Our advantage?
- Amazing natural language processing, semantic search, and question-answering technology
- Long track-record of building some of the best Q&A systems ever built
- Why you should pay attention: We have built the largest index of questions and answers ever created: we know the answer to more than 10 billion questions.
- Get an invite: http://www.swingly.com
Extractiv (http://www.extractiv.com)
- Who? Alpha-stage data harvesting and content extraction company
- Our goal? Making the Web truly actionable. Rather than simply passively “monitoring” the Web, we go out and delivers the information that really matters to you and your business.
- Our advantage?
- Incredible, scalable web crawling and data harvesting from 80Legs
- Access to more semantic types than any other content extraction provider
- Thousands of names
- Hundreds of attributes, facts, relationships, and events
- Customizable, trainable extraction which can scale up to any need (or any level of performance)
- Why you should pay attention: We can turn the unstructured Web (blogs, Twitter, etc.) into structured content you can use. (Usually in 30 minutes or less. )
- Get an invite: support@extractiv.com