Dimitris,

> We could also create an I18n FAQ page for similar questions. Maybe the
> Spanish guys can gather all their questions in an page (i.e. [2]) and we
> could help them write the answers :-)


Great idea! A sort of "one act of kindness generates another," or "pay it
forward." Mariano, Oscar, can it be done?

http://dbpedia.org/internationalization/faq

Cheers,
Pablo


On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Dimitris Kontokostas <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> EXTRACTION
>>
>> It seems that the extraction process reads the properties found in the
>>> infobox instances, without checking if those properties are in the
>>> infobox definition. is that so?
>>
>>
>> I think so.
>>
>
> This is correct. The infobox definition is *not* taken into consideration
>
>  Eg: In the statistics of (es) Ficha_de_futbolista we can find the
>>> property "altura" as one of the most used, but that property is not in
>>> the infobox definition. In the infobox definition we can see "estatura"
>>> (a concept similar to "altura") but is much less used that "altura". Do
>>> we have a mechanism to map both infobox properties to the same DBpedia
>>> property? We tried creating two mappings, one for "altura" and another
>>> for "estatura", but we get always two triples for each infobox instance
>>> (although the instance has only one of these properties). Any solution?
>>
>>
>> What happens if you map only one? Maybe the infobox itself is doing some
>> resolution there? When you say you get two triples, do you mean you get one
>> for the http://dbpedia.org/ontology namespace and one for the
>> http://dbpedia.org/property namespace? That is expected. One is for the
>> mapped and one for the non-mapped property.
>>
>
> I am also confused here. Pablo is correct on the distinction (ontology -
> property).
> If this is not the case, you should map them both to the same DBpedia
> ontology property. If the infobox has both of them defined then you will
> get 2 triples, otherwise you will get only one. At least you should :-)
>
>
>>  The parsing of spanish dates (dd/mm/yyyy) does not work (property
>>> mapped to xsd:date). Do we have the same problem for decimal numbers? (in
>>> spanish, decimal numbers use to be like 2,5 instead of 2.5).
>>
>>
>> You can patch the Date and Decimal extractors to take some i18n config
>> params.
>>
>
> You could take a look at [1]. I updated it recently.
>
>
> We could also create an I18n FAQ page for similar questions. Maybe the
> Spanish guys can gather all their questions in an page (i.e. [2]) and we
> could help them write the answers :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Dimitris
>
> [1] http://dbpedia.org/Internationalization/Guide
> [2] http://dbpedia.org/internationalization/faq
>
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