[Feel free to blame me if you read this more than once]

To whom it may interest,

Full of delight, I would like to announce the first beta release of *StrepHit*:

https://github.com/Wikidata/StrepHit

TL;DR: StrepHit is an intelligent reading agent that understands text and translates it into *referenced* Wikidata statements. It is a IEG project funded by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Key features: -Web spiders to harvest a collection of documents (corpus) from reliable sources -automatic corpus analysis to understand the most meaningful verbs -sentences and semi-structured data extraction -train a machine learning classifier via crowdsourcing -*supervised and rule-based fact extraction from text* -Natural Language Processing utilities -parallel processing

You can find all the details here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Val... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Val...

If you like it, star it on GitHub!

Best,

Marco