Hi everyone,
Although the item below that I'm forwarding is not directly related to wiki research, it is of general interest to researchers in a wide variety of fields, and particularly to bibliometricians, of which I know there are a lot on this list.
Regards, Chitu
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:56:43 -0400 From: Lee Gilesgiles@ist.psu.edu To: AISWORLD Information Systems World Networkaisworld@lists.aisnet.org Subject: [AISWorld] Acknowledgement Search Engine - AckSeer
AckSeer is a beta automatic acknowledgment indexing search engine that explores automatic identification, entity extraction and indexing of acknowledgements from papers. Also, acknowledged entities are extracted within the acknowledgment passages.
Currently, AckSeer indexes acknowledgments from more than 500,000 papers in CiteSeerX. These acknowledgements contain more than 4 million acknowledged entities with approximately 2 million of them unique. Entity extraction is based on AlchemyAPI and OpenCalais. Acknowledged entities are ranked by citation. Feedback is most welcomed.