July 21, 2008
Extracting Knowledge from Unstructured Business Plans
Reading this post, Monitor110: A Post Mortem, I was reminded of the post I made after watching the Wallstrip interview with Collective Intellect’s CTO:
“Sounds fascinating but I’m not sure if it works; I’d need to see it in action.”
From Roger Ehrenberg’s post mortem:
“[W]e started out trying to analyze most of the dynamic web (probably up to 100 million sources by now) in real-time, and using technology (NLP, pattern matching, etc.) to do the filtering, indexing and categorization. This was no mean engineering feat. We had a very, very large and complex back-end. And even with this, the quality of the data coming through to the end-user was just not that good.”
Still sounds fascinating, but now we’re sure that it doesn’t work.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
A few of us are still hopeful, though slightly less ambitious. :-)
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:40 pm
@Adrian: Do you have any idea how much money they burned through over at Monitor110?