Re: [SMW-devel] Semantic Parser Engine

2010-04-23 Thread Jeff Thompson
If Wikipedia will only have the data but no query (because it's a burden for its servers), then maybe there should be software on the client to download the raw data and process the query locally. In some browsers, even javascript is fast enough for this, so that the browser can fill in the

[SMW-devel] The unaskable question about SMW and Wikipedia

2009-12-20 Thread Jeff Thompson
Every once in a while I work up the courage to ask about SMW on Wikipedia. Is there anything that can be said about plans for this game-changing event? Thanks, - Jeff -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon

Re: [SMW-devel] Poll: How to call error property?

2009-08-02 Thread Jeff Thompson
Suppose my date property is birthdate. Instead of [[birthdate::not a date]], I think it be the other way around: [[not a date::birthdate]] so that it won't be confused with other property values for birthdate. Markus Krötzsch wrote: The upcoming SMW release 1.4.3 will introduce a property that

Re: [SMW-devel] [News] Semantic MediaWiki 1.4.2 released

2009-02-21 Thread Jeff Thompson
Markus Krötzsch wrote: we are happy to announce the release of Semantic MediaWiki 1.4.2 Is there a list of features or bug fixes that are required before Wikipedia will add this extension? -- Open Source Business

Re: [SMW-devel] New feature: Concepts (stored queries)

2008-07-07 Thread Jeff Thompson
Markus Krötzsch wrote: Also, SMW can *export* your queries now: click on the RDF feed link on a concept page to see the machine-readable version of the query. The OWL format that we use for export can nicely capture many SMW queries, and OWL tools can actually read these descriptions and

Re: [SMW-devel] Predefined/Saved queries

2008-06-11 Thread Jeff Thompson
Markus Krötzsch wrote: For example: {{#ask: [[Query:French cities]] [[Population::1000]] }} where [[Query:French cities]] is the query [[Category:City]] [[located in::France]]. In a previous very illuminating message, you said It is very easy to map an #ask query to an OWL class

Re: [SMW-devel] Request for renaming n-ary relations

2008-03-19 Thread Jeff Thompson
What are the plans for exporting compound value types to RDF? You may be getting into blank nodes. Markus Krötzsch wrote: One could also call them many-valued properties. Composite and structured are also an improvement. Composite type or compound type would both be fine. Any such name can of

Re: [SMW-devel] Classes vs. Categories

2008-03-06 Thread Jeff Thompson
publicly available at this time. Harold Solbrig Apelon, Inc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Thompson Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:24 PM To: Semantic MediaWiki devs Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Classes vs. Categories Jon Lang

Re: [SMW-devel] Classes vs. Categories

2008-03-05 Thread Jeff Thompson
Jon Lang wrote: Jeff Thompson wrote: Good points about the difference between OWL DL and OWL Full. So if you only want to export OWL DL, what would you do with a page like the President or Dog or Wine pages on Wikipedia, which are pages about a class. Place articles about classes

Re: [SMW-devel] Classes vs. Categories

2008-03-04 Thread Jeff Thompson
Jon Lang wrote: Conversely, the relationship between an article on Urban Planning and a City category is _not_ an is-a relationship: Urban Planning is not a city. But while it's not a valid class/instance relationship, it _is_ a valid category/article relationship. You've voiced distaste

Re: [SMW-devel] Classes vs. Categories

2008-03-04 Thread Jeff Thompson
Jeff Thompson wrote: Another example of a class of classes is Heads of State. For example, President and Emperor are instances of the class Heads of State. But President itself is *already a class, which can have instances like George Washington. Sorry, I screwed up this example

[SMW-devel] Semantic link for citations

2007-09-20 Thread Jeff Thompson
What are the plans in Semantic Mediawiki to capture citations? I ask because, for a cited by property, the subject is not the article, but a particular assertion made within the article. For example the article for Germany: http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Germany says it has [[area::357,050km²]] This

[SMW-devel] I have some account invitations for freebase.com

2007-08-26 Thread Jeff Thompson
I have some invitations to get an account on freebase.com (a semantic user-editable data site going live soon). You don't need an account to view the data, but you do if you want to change data or create types. If you want an invitation, send me email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Jeff