Hi,

Problem 1 is not a problem anymore. Sorry to ask you about this problem. I
already found the information of Apple (fruit or tree) in the answer.

Thanh-Tu

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Nguyen Thanh Tu
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Thank you for your reply. Now I use lookup WS to query in DBpedia. And I
> got two problems when I tried to get all resources about Apple:
>
> 1. I use the URL:
> http://lookup.dbpedia.org/query.aspx?q=Apple
>
> And the results are about Apple Inc, Apple Records, Newton, apple pie,..,
> but not about Apple (fruit or tree).
>
> When I search in web-based (http://lookup.dbpedia.org), I get the full
> answers.
>
> Do you think I should fix something here?
>
> 2. I don't know why I cannot use another URL:
> http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx/KeywordSearch?QueryString=Apple
>
> Cheers,
> Thanh-Tu
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Richard Cyganiak <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> On 17 Dec 2009, at 12:25, Nguyen Thanh Tu wrote:
>>
>>> I'm wondering whether the disambiguation resource (e.g.
>>> Apple_%28disambiguation%29<
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_%28disambiguation%29>)
>>>
>>> has all the disambiguation links or not. Because I've tried 2
>>> disambiguation
>>> resources "Apple" and "Amphibian", and I see the results are uncompleted
>>> (explained below).
>>>
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_%28disambiguation%29
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Amphibian_%28disambiguation%29<
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_%28disambiguation%29>
>>>
>>>
>>> With the first link, the results include the disambiguation link "
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/apple<
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_%28disambiguation%29>",
>>> (not "http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple<
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_%28disambiguation%29>"),
>>>
>>> therefore, I couldn't go from
>>> Apple_%28disambiguation%29<
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_%28disambiguation%29>
>>> to http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple<
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_%28disambiguation%29>
>>> .
>>>
>>
>> The link in Wikipedia is [[apple]], so DBpedia extracts a lowercase link.
>> In Wikipedia, the first letter of page names is case-insensitive. In
>> DBpedia, the entire URI is case-sensitive (that's prescribed by RDF). So the
>> lower-case link works in Wikipedia but not in DBpedia.
>>
>> I wonder wether it would make sense to normalize the first character in
>> page names to upper-case in DBpedia.
>>
>>  With the second link, the results don't include the link
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/<
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_%28disambiguation%29>
>>> Amphibian <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_%28disambiguation%29>, and
>>>
>>> include the link to "Amphibious_vehicle" which doesn't go to anywhere
>>> else
>>> (in fact, it should).
>>>
>>
>> The algorithm for extracting disambiguation links is fairly naïve, it
>> extracts only links that include the original page name (in this case,
>> "Amphibian"). So it would extract "Amphibian (song)", "Amphibian aircraft",
>> but not "Amphibious vehicle". That's a limitation of the algorithm -- to
>> always do the right thing, it would have to analyse the layout and semantics
>> of the wiki text, which is a bit beyond the DBpedia project's means. I'm
>> sure that the DBpedia team would accept patches that improve the algorithm
>> though -- all the code is open!
>>
>> (Currently, "Amphibian aircraft" is not in the extracted RDF data either.
>> That's because of a bug which has been fixed after the last extraction.)
>>
>> Best,
>> Richard
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Do you know what I should do to get all the information of disambiguation
>>> for one word?
>>> Thank you,
>>> Cheers,
>>> Thanh-Tu
>>>
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