Most European small to medium sized companies manage digital content in multiple languages. So a semantic engine, that can understand multiple languages would be an asset. Apache Stanbol (incubating) has made a start. It provides multilingual features for some European languages. These linguistic capabilities are dependent on the capabilities of OpenNLP (Apache Incubator), especially the availability of part-of-speech taggers. The following languages are supported by the Keyword Linking Engine of Apache Stanbol: English, German, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, and Portuguese. For these languages models of OpenNLP can be built and added as bundles to Apache Stanbol. Continue Reading →