On 7 March 2011 16:56, Jimmy O'Regan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7 March 2011 16:28, Antonio Toral <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to add this idea:
>>
>>
>> task: dictionary induction from wikis
>> difficulty: 3. medium
>> description: Extract dictionaries from linguistic wikis
>> rationale: Wiki dictionaries and encyclopedias (e.g. omegawiki,
>> wiktionary, wikipedia) contain information (e.g. bilingual equivalences,
>> morphological features, conjugations, etc) that could be exploited to
>> speed up the development of dictionaries for Apertium. This task aims at
>> automatically building dictionaries by extracting different pieces of
>> information from wiki structures such as interlingual links, infoboxes,
>> etc.
>> requirements: SQL, mediawiki syntax, perl, maybe C++ or Java
>>
>
> FWIW, there's a branch of dbpedia that has started to do something
> similar: 
> http://dbpedia.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/dbpedia/extraction_framework/file/e406efd61660
>

BTW, I mentioned dbpedia to you at freerbmt as a way of checking the
type of proper names. Here's a sample sparql query to get place names:
http://dbpedia.org/snorql/?query=SELECT+*+WHERE+{%0D%0A%3Fsubject+rdf:type+%3Chttp://dbpedia.org/ontology/Place%3E.%0D%0A%3Fsubject+rdfs:label+%3Flabelen.%0D%0A%3Fsubject+rdfs:label+%3Flabeles.%0D%0AFILTER+(lang(%3Flabelen)+%3D+%22en%22+%26%26+lang(%3Flabeles)+%3D+%22es%22)%0D%0A}+LIMIT+20

You could, say, change http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Place to
http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Monarch or
http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Pope to get a list of translatable names
of people, etc.

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