cl-opencalais : A Common Lisp Wrapper for the OpenCalais API

15 September 2009

The Thomson Reuters Calais web service takes unstructured text and returns Resource Description Framework (RDF) formatted results identifying entities, facts and events within the content.

I’ve been playing with Calais and evaluating it for some upcoming project work. I thought it would be fun to build a Common Lisp wrapper to facilitate some exploratory programming. It turned out to be very easy using Drakma.

I’m getting to really like clbuild and I’ve added cl-opencalais and a number of other things to my wnpp-projects projects file, like this:

# Rob's own projects
cl-opencalais get_git git://github.com/blackwre/cl-opencalais.git

So it now seems really easy to mix and match libraries and just play!.

It was also my first try at using GitHub . I have to say it’s a joy.

cl-opencalais is available from http://github.com/blackwre/cl-opencalais