I was playing around with NER of some texts, and came along DBPedia Spotlight.
However,
So is this service still available?
Are there any alternatives (I want to access it from PHP)?
I just learned that this machine is down. You can use the one under http://spotlight.sztaki.hu:2222/rest
You can curl it like this:
curl "http://spotlight.sztaki.hu:2222/rest/annotate?text=Michelle%20Obama%20called%20Thursday%20on%20Congress%20to%20extend%20a%20tax%20break%20for%20students%20included%20in%20last%20year%27s%20economic%20stimulus%20package,%20arguing%20that%20the%20policy%20provides%20more%20generous%20assistance.&confidence=0.2&support=20" -H "Accept:application/json"