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
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