Hi Aya, On 06/24/2012 04:03 PM, Aya Zoghby wrote: > > Dear All, > > I am a PhD student working in the domain of Arabic Semantic Web, and I > want please to know: > > What is the role of DBpedia mappings if we want to interact with > DBpedia in Arabic? is it the way to querying the DBpedia in a specific > language?
The mappings are used to map one of the Wikipedia attributes of a specific infobox type to a property in the DBpedia ontology. The mappings can be updated through the mappings Wiki available at [1]. For each language there is a section in that Wiki. More information about the mappings Wiki and its benifits can be found the paper titled "DBpedia and the Live Extraction of Structured Data from Wikipedia", which you can find at [2]. > > If yes, is that means that the only mapped templates will be the > available knowledge? Actually, the information contained in the Arabic Wikipedia can be extracted and converted to RDF using the current DBpedia framework, but using the mappings through the extraction process gives the framework more fine grained control on the extracted data. You can understand what I mean if you read the aforementioned paper. > > I ask that question because the Arabic mapping of DBpedia still very > little, so are that mappings the only available knowledge in that > language in DBpedia? That's right, so one of the benefits of using a Wiki for the mappings, is that it enables the user to participate. So you are very welcome to register yourself in the mappings Wiki, and add more mappings for the Arabic language, which enriches the knowledge of DBpedia in general. Please also note that after you subscribe to mappings Wiki, you should send a mail asking for editor rights, in order to be able to modify the mappings. > > If someone needs to get information from English Wikipedia in an > Arabic interface, is that available? Can you please clarify that question? > > If I have an entities and relationships that are represented in > Arabic, how can I relate them to the corresponding entities and > predicates or properties in DBpedia? If you understands that question correctly, you can do that through the mappings Wiki. > > Please doctor help me, this is an urgent problem that I need to resolve. > > Thank yo so much in advance. If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact us back. [1] http://mappings.dbpedia.org [2] http://jens-lehmann.org/files/2012/program_el_dbpedia_live.pdf -- Kind Regards Mohamed Morsey Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
