Calais.NET

Project Description
This .NET 3.5 class library provides a wrapper for the Calais web service.
Calais allows you to automatically annotate your content with rich semantic metadata, including companies, cities, industry terms and people.



Read more about Calis at http://opencalais.com/

Language:	C# 3.0
Requirements:	.NET Framework 3.5
Developer's blog:	chrisfulstow.com/blog/

Step 1
Get a Calais API key here

Step 2
Add Calais.NET to your project.

Step 3
Use the Calais.NET API to extract metadata from your content.

Example

string content = (new WebClient()).DownloadString("http://news.bbc.co.uk/");
 
CalaisDotNet calais = new CalaisDotNet(ApiKey, CalaisContentType.Html, content);
            CalaisDocument doc = calais.Call();
 
List<CalaisEntity> countries =
    (from entity in doc.Entities
     where entity.Type == CalaisEntityType.Country
     select entity).ToList();
 
countries.ForEach(e => Console.WriteLine(e.Name + ": " + e.Instances.Count));
 

Output

Venezuela: 2
Malta: 1
United States: 4
Canada: 1
Colombia: 2
United Kingdom: 5
Sri Lanka: 1