Re: Reverse Template Engine?

* robm@robm.com <robm@robm.com> [2006-02-14 12:47-0800]
> 
> > Is the TAP RTE system still used, developed? I found a link to 
> > it on kb.alpiri.com but that site now seems dead...
> > 
> > What's new in TAP this year?
> 
> The short answers are, no, no, and not much. TAP is in maintenance mode
> at Stanford, since Guha went to Google in 2005 and I went to Yahoo later
> that year.

Yeah, I could see that inhibiting collaboration a little...

> The RTE system in particular was replaced by a script-based system that
> resembled LISP. The newer system was much faster and more flexible than
> RTE turned out to be. Nonetheless, scale never went over 30-40 sites,
> though the RDF itself grew to the limit of what you could load on a
> 1.5GB machine even when compressed.

I'm looking at possibility of extractors for medical/health content
on the Web. Did the code for the RTE successor ever get released?


> The semantic search demo on http://sp11.stanford.edu/ is likely to be
> the final iteration of TAP as a system. 

How about the management of the core TAP KB? Do stanford have plans 
for it? Or should it be considered abandonware of some kind?

cheers,

Dan

Received on Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:53:44 UTC