Hi Tom, you might be right. In the recent re-setup of the Lookup service, we probably overlooked using the correct tokenizer.
I will look into this as soon as possible. Cheers, Max On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 09:09, Thomas Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear DBpedia Lookup team, > > First of all, thanks for bringing up the DBpedia Lookup service again > after the short unplanned downtime. I have one remark, though: could > it be that it used to be more forgiving in the past? Let me illustrate > with a couple of queries for "martin luther king": > > http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx/KeywordSearch?&QueryString=martin+luther+king > => no results > http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx/KeywordSearch?&QueryString=martin+luther+king+jr. > => no results > http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx/KeywordSearch?&QueryString=martin+luther+king,+jr. > => correct results > > So it seams like as if it only matches the exact terms of the > corresponding DBpedia resource page > http://dbpedia.org/page/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. Obviously the old > service is gone, so comparing is difficult, but I have the gut feeling > that it used to be a little more forgiving in the past. Can anyone > confirm or deny this? > > Thanks! > > Best, > Tom > > -- > Thomas Steiner, Research Scientist, Google Inc. > http://blog.tomayac.com, http://twitter.com/tomayac > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
