Probase is a Microsoft Research project described as an "ongoing project that focuses on knowledge acquisition and knowledge serving." Its primary goal is to "enable machines to understand human behavior and human communication.
MS, die sich im Open Data Bereich stark positionieren, war nicht bekannt als eine Unternehmung, die im Semantic Web Bereich tätig ist. Aber hinter den Kulissen wird anscheinend an etwas ziemlich großen gearbeitet.
Unstructured Information Management applications are
software systems that analyze large volumes of
unstructured information in order to discover knowledge
that is relevant to an end user. An example UIM
application might ingest plain text and identify
entities, such as persons, places, organizations; or
relations, such as works-for or located-at.