Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-10 Thread Michael Hale
If you are going to use a computer to automatically generate new facts using an ontology then you have to do fairly sophisticated filtering of the results. If you start with just a few axioms for logic and Euclidean geometry you could have a computer automatically prove new theorems using them

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-10 Thread Patrick Cassidy
-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikidata-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tom Morris Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 10:12 AM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories. On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Patrick Cassidy p

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-09 Thread Patrick Cassidy
] Question about wikipedia categories. Yes, there is and should be more than one ontology, and that is already the case with categories, which are so flexible they can loop around and become their own grandfather. Dbpedia complaints should be discussed on that list, I am not a dbpedia user, though

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-09 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Patrick, Op 8-5-2013 17:19, Patrick Cassidy schreef: Should we have more than one ontology? Back in 2001 when I was doing some artificial intelligence courses, the semantic web was the next big thing. What I remember about ontology is that an ontology of all is next to impossible. Most

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-09 Thread Jane Darnell
908-561-3416 -Original Message- From: wikidata-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikidata-l- boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jane Darnell Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 12:14 PM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-07 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-05-06 18:13, Jane Darnell a écrit : Yes, there is and should be more than one ontology, and that is already the case with categories, which are so flexible they can loop around and become their own grandfather. To my mind, categories indeed feet better how we think. I'm not sure

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-07 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-05-06 20:08, Paul A. Houle a écrit : From my viewpoint, biases are an issue of statistical sampling. It's not just the sampling which matter, how you process them to infer conclusions is just as important. Except in the case of an hypotetical clone army where each clone lived

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-07 Thread Michael Hale
different ranks to two categories that are equally important. Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 16:41:45 +0200 From: hellm...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories. Am 07.05.2013 14:01, schrieb emw

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-07 Thread Jane Darnell
: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories. I spoke too soon. That is the only loop at two steps. But if you go out three steps (25000 categories) you find another 23 loops. Organizational studies - organizations, housing - household behavior and family economics - home - housing, religious

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-07 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories. I don't know if these are useful, but if we go two steps from the fundamental categories on the English Wikipedia we find several loops. Knowledge contains information and information contains knowledge, for example. Not allowing loops

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-07 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
, but it is only 2000 categories. Four steps would be 25000. From: hale.michael...@live.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 12:10:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories. I spoke too soon. That is the only loop at two steps. But if you go

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-07 Thread Patrick Cassidy
project. Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories. Hi Pat, I've been involved with DBpedia for several years, so these are interesting thoughts. On 5 May 2013 01:25, Patrick Cassidy p...@micra.com wrote: If one is interested in a functional “category” system, it would

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-06 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: Now to give my own opinion of the representation/ontology you are building, I would say that it's based on exactly the opposite premisses I would use. Wikidata Q1 is universe, then you have earth, life, death

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-06 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-05-06 11:14, Lydia Pintscher a écrit : On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: Now to give my own opinion of the representation/ontology you are building, I would say that it's based on exactly the opposite premisses I would use. Wikidata Q1

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-06 Thread Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
Hi Mathieu, I think the DBpedia mailing list is a better place for discussing the DBpedia ontology: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion Drop us a message if you have questions or concerns. I'm sure someone will answer your questions. I am not an ontology expert, so

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-06 Thread Jane Darnell
Yes, there is and should be more than one ontology, and that is already the case with categories, which are so flexible they can loop around and become their own grandfather. Dbpedia complaints should be discussed on that list, I am not a dbpedia user, though I think it's a useful project to

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Hale
...@ontology2.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 18:08:04 + Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories. From my viewpoint, biases are an issue of statistical sampling. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia by humans for humans so of course it has

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-06 Thread Chris Maloney
requirement. Then you are looking at Americans that are actors and politicians, which you can't do in the category system. From: p...@ontology2.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 18:08:04 + Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories. From

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Hale
query and want to modify it. Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 15:21:23 -0400 From: voldr...@gmail.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories. Michael, that's really closely in line with what I was thinking. Why don't you take a crack

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Michael Hale
To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 19:25:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories. If one is interested in a functional “category” system, it would be very helpful to have a good logic-based ontology as the backbone. I haven’t looked

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Chris Maloney
...@micra.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 19:25:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories. If one is interested in a functional “category” system, it would be very helpful to have a good logic-based ontology as the backbone. I haven’t

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
Hale Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 2:57 AM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories. I think it's important to consider the distinction between a category system and semantic queries. I think it's very likely that DBpedia

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread emw
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 16:28:14 +0200 To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories. Hi Pat, I've been involved with DBpedia for several years, so these are interesting thoughts. On 5 May 2013 01:25, Patrick Cassidy p

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Luca Martinelli
2013/5/5 Michael Hale hale.michael...@live.com: As far as checking the import progress of Wikidata, the category American women writers has 1479 articles. 651 of them currently have a main type (GND), 328 have a sex, 162 have an occupation, 111 have a country of citizenship, 49 have a sexual

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Michael Hale
14:45:05 -0400 From: emw.w...@gmail.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories. There's a related essay on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Next_generation_categories. The Wikidata properties instance

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
On 5 May 2013 20:48, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: Le dimanche 05 mai 2013 à 16:28 +0200, Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt a The ontology is maintained by a community that everyone can join at http://mappings.dbpedia.org/ . An overview of the current class hierarchy is here:

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-04 Thread Jane Darnell
Wondering exactly the same thing - my frustrations with categories began about three years ago and it seems I am surprised monthly by severe limitations to this outdated apparatus. I am a heavy category user, but I would love to be able to kick it out the door in favour of a more structured

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Hale
/User:Wakebrdkid/Popular_category_browsing I'm currently multiplying the Chinese traffic by 30 to try and account for Baidu Baike. Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 08:14:54 +0200 From: jane...@gmail.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories