Dear Pierre, Thanks for your email! Indeed I think DBpedia could be a very valuable resource for creating questions for freerice. I guess we should start by selecting certain properties from the DBpedia ontology [1] and then use all triples/facts having the property as predicate for generating questions (cf. [2] for countryCapitalCity).
I will try to look a little more in detail into this next week - let me know if you have any concrete questions already we might be able to answer. Best regards so far, Sören [1] http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&query=select+distinct+%3Fp+where+{%3Fp+a+rdf%3AProperty}&debug=on&timeout=&format=text%2Fhtml&save=display&fname= [2] http://dbpedia.org/sparql/?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&query=select+distinct+%3Fs%2C+%3Fo+where+{%3Fs+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fproperty%2FcountryCapitalCity%3E+%3Fo}&debug=on&timeout=&format=text%2Fhtml&save=display&fname= Am 27.01.2011 22:41, schrieb Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski: > Hello Everyone, > > This is PG, I work for the World Food Programme, the humanitarian > agency. (wfp.org <http://wfp.org>), I work on the web there and, among > other things, manage Freerice.com, you might have heard of it. It's an > ad-supported quizz game where you get 10 grains of rice for each right > answer. The game is played by 1 million people / month and has raised > enough rice to feed over 4 million kids (rice earned by player was > recently distributed in Haiti schools: > http://freerice.com/content-blog-post/video-haiti-love). Lots of > parents, teachers, kids use to it to learn and feed people. > > Long story short. I really would like to expand the number of subjects > one can play on freerice. Right now the ones we have have been there for > a while and having new questions will delight existing players, attract > new ones, raise more rice, feed more people! > > I am thinking that dbpedia could be a terrific source of content. Each > fact is essentially an answer to a question and the structured format > should make it a breeze to import. Would anyone on this list be > interested in working with me and my team on this? We have very little > experience in dbpedia / semantics and would greatly appreciate some > help! It will be a fun and very rewarding project. > > Thx > > pg > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
