What is the “MeaningCloud” NLP API?

MeaningCloud is one of the NLP APIs that are integrated with WPSOLR’s NLP API extension.

According to MeaningCloud documentation:

“Topics Extraction is MeaningCloud’s solution for extracting the different elements present in sources of information. This detection process is carried out by combining a number of complex natural language processing techniques that allow to obtain morphological, syntactic and semantic analyses of a text and use them to identify different types of significant elements..”

Get your MeaningCloud credentials

1. Copy your License Key

Active the WPSOLR NLP API extension

1. Select the extension menu
2. Click the “Activate” checkbox
3. Save to activate the extension

Configure the MeaningCloud NLP API

1. Click to create an MeaningCloud NLP API configuration
2. Enter a name for your MeaningCloud NLP API configuration
3. Activate this MeaningCloud NLP API configuration
4. Activate the cache for this MeaningCloud NLP API configuration
5. Select the provider “MeaningCloud”
6. Select the service “Entity Extraction”
7. Enter your MeaningCloud License key
8. Enter your language
9. Select each index you want to process with this MeaningCloud NLP API configuration
10. Select each post types you want to process with this MeaningCloud NLP API configuration (only the post types selected in WPSOLR screen 2.2 previously will show up here)
11. Save

Configure the WPSOLR search

1. Select the search menu
2. Select the presentation menu
3. Activate the search with WPSOLR

Configure the MeaningCloud fields to index

1. Select the search menu
2. Select the index menu
3. Select the post types you want to index (containing the texts to extract)
4. Select the MeaningCloud fields fields you want to index

Configure the MeaningCloud fields to use as filters

1. Select the filters menu
2. Select the MeaningCloud fields fields you want to use as filters

Add WPSOLR facets widget to your search sidebar

1. Add the WPSOLR facets widget

Create a post with some interesting text to extract

Make a search and use extracted fields as filters

1. Filter by persons
2. Filter by location