I am told ClearForest Gnosis is yet another essential power tool for exploration of the Semantic web. Powered by Calais, Gnosis provides real time semantic processing in firefox. Gnosis analyzes page content and highlights (underlines in color) information such as people, organizations, companies, products and geographies. Sort of an auto highliegter for the web. hovering over any of the identified topics, I discovered news, blog entries, maps, company information and Wikipedia entries. Is this useful? I’d say so. A nice feature is that I can configure a list of sites that will be processed automatically. Other pages can be analyzed “on demand” by right clicking on the page or using the keyboard shortcut.
{ 2008 06 03 }
Fran Sansalone | 06-Aug-08 at 12:18 pm | Permalink
Hi Mike,
The Calais Community Manager here.
Since your posting on Gnosis we’ve released a new version that supports Firefox 3 as well as Internet Explorer 6. With our upcoming release of Calais in late August we plan to enhance Gnosis to support sorting of entities by relevance.
Cheers,
Fran
Mike Axelrod | 06-Aug-08 at 7:06 pm | Permalink
Thanks for the update Fran. I still find myself using Gnosis on a regular basis. I like to read the New York Times on line. Gnosis does a good job of identifying terms in news articles. A typical pattern of usage I find myself falling into with the Times is to jump from a term I want to know more about in the article to the relevant Wikipedia page. Very useful.