Mashup APIs/Other

Topicalizer is a text analysis and topic extraction tool. Based on methods of computational linguistics it provides various analyses for a given URL or plain text. These comprise, amongst others, language recognition, lexical density, keywords, collocations, word and phrase frequencies, readability and a short abstract. Topicalizer can, for instance, be used for automatically tagging a website or blog entry with semantic information or for retrieving summaries for web pages.

The TRYNT Term Extraction Web Service provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content. The list of words and phrases returned will be in context to your supplied query at the time of your query.

The Traffic Web Services from Yahoo! enable you to access real-time traffic alerts information for a given location. Build applications that use this dynamic traffic alert data to help you plan optimal routes and keep on top of your commute. Traffic data also makes a great addition to a mashup with Yahoo! Maps.