Peter Ansell wrote:
> On 29 April 2010 01:09, Paul Houle <p...@ontology2.com> wrote:
>
>
>> The other issue that's going on (2) is that the extractor is
>> obviously doing an ineffective job of detecting cities. Now, since
>> it's dependent on the infoboxes, maybe it's just "doing its job" and
>> the problem is that the infoboxes don't have the right stuff in them.
>> If that's really the case, I think there's a need (somewhere) for a
>> "city detector" much like the "person detector" that Freebase has.
>>
>
> Freebase would have a significant advantage with person detectors,
> particularly for living people, because there is a large focus on
> Wikipedia to make sure that articles about living people are regularly
> patrolled due to legal issues. So every living person article is
> supposed to have an infobox on its talk page that contains
> "{{WPBiography|living=yes|...". Many non-living people may have
> "{{WPBiography|living=no|...", which is just as easy to identify.
>
> If you want data quality changed, it would be best for you to focus on
> Wikipedia rather than DBpedia IMO. Have you tried talking to the
> people at [1] about your concerns?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cities
>
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Note, DBpedia-Live has been in hot staging for a few months now. Thus,
apropos Peter, if you fix Wikipedia the Linked Data View in DBpedia will
be fixed too esp. with Live Edition in play.
We are syncing Live with Wikipedia now that 3.5.1 cut is out.
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