I'm replying to my own email:
Hi Pablo: I'm sorry, it's late and I noticed I didn't read your mail
correctly. I see you are talking about extending the mappings wiki for
tables, lists and the main article text. This approach is also under
discussion in GSoC , under the idea 4.18 [1] .
[1] http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2014/ideas#h359-23
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Alexandru Todor <to...@inf.fu-berlin.de>wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
>
> We're working on the topic you are discussing. We're semi-automatically
> committing things back to to Mappings Wiki with bots [1]. Currently we are
> limiting ourselves to label translations, but will move on to the inferred
> mappings generated by Airpedia. There is also an Google Summer of Code
> proposal that includes checking DBpedia info against other language
> chapters and external data sources such as freebase, wikidata, geonames,
> musicbrainz etc, and creating a feedback loop to Wikipedia [3] (you can
> read the full proposal in Google melange if you have access, the allocation
> of a slot for this proposal is still being debated though).
>
>
> Roberto: If you want to help improve DBpedia, please register in the
> mappings wiki and request an editor status, we will gladly give you access.
> DBpedia is a community effort and we don't have the financial backing of
> Google or the donations Wikipedia gets. In conclusion, any small edits you
> can make to improve the mappings are greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Alexandru
>
> [1] https://github.com/ag-csw/missingBot
> [2] http://www.airpedia.org/
> [3] http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2014/ideas#h359-20
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Pablo N. Mendes
> <pablomen...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> I like very much the "contributing back" aspect of this. Thanks for
>> offering! One problem is that some pages have no template, making it
>> impossible to use the template-type mappings defined on the mappings wiki.
>>
>> Other people have implemented type inferencing from categories, lists and
>> even from the text.
>>
>> Others, by cross-referencing with Freebase, Cyc, etc.
>>
>> I am wondering if the type statements obtained through all these
>> approaches should not be imported back to DBpedia through some
>> semiautomatic curation method (read mappings wiki beyond templates).
>>
>> I guess we could also use the wiki, and allow people to also add mappings
>> for Lists, Categories, Tables, and other features generated by these
>> approaches?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Pablo
>> On Apr 9, 2014 2:29 PM, "Kingsley Idehen" <kide...@openlinksw.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/9/14 4:53 PM, Paul Houle wrote:
>>>
>>>> The type assignments in DBpedia are very precise (few false
>>>> statements) but not accurate in the sense that recall is poor; many
>>>> things fall through the cracks. The real problem is that the the
>>>> mappings are the map, not the territory. Wikipedia is an
>>>> encyclopedia for humans, not for machines, so DBpedia has to parse
>>>> whatever unsane markup they give us.
>>>>
>>>> Systems like Wikidata and Freebase can be edited by machines and
>>>> human ontologists and get better recall for types.
>>>>
>>>> http://basekb.com/
>>>>
>>>> is a conversion from Freebase to industry standard RDF. You could
>>>> use :BaseKB as a substitute for DBpedia, but DBpedia has advantages
>>>> too because in addition to the 4 million things important enough to be
>>>> in DBpedia, there is another 37 million unimportant things in :BaseKB
>>>> that matter only to librarians, video store clerks and professional
>>>> discographers.
>>>>
>>>> These unimportant things will drive you crazy unless you master
>>>> them, and the easiest way to turn down the noise is to restrict
>>>> search to the 4 million things.
>>>>
>>>> I could make you an RDF file that has statements such as
>>>>
>>>> ?dbpediaTopic a ?freebaseType .
>>>>
>>>> you could load that together with the rest of DBpedia. That would
>>>> get you a long way towards good lists. The trouble at this point is
>>>> that you don't have the freebase types connected to the DBpedia types
>>>> so you can't join them against the schema to find properties and such.
>>>> Mapping the types to the DBpedia types would not be that hard either,
>>>> since the two systems are well aligned. Then you get something that
>>>> looks like DBpedia but has more accurate types.
>>>>
>>>> Freebase has more accurate and better populated data for things
>>>> like ticker symbols, geo-coordinates, genders, birth dates and the
>>>> like. It would not be hard to rewrite Freebase statements to
>>>>
>>>> ?dbpediaTopic ?freebasePredicate ?anotherDbpediaTopic .
>>>>
>>>> and that would produce something that would be remarkably user
>>>> friendly.
>>>>
>>>
>>> :baseKB could (and maybe should) pitched as a human-and-machine curated
>>> bridge between Freebase, DBpedia, and Wikidata (I think).
>>>
>>> Have you considered mapping the classes and properties across DBpedia,
>>> Freebase, and Wikidata?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Kingsley Idehen
>>> Founder & CEO
>>> OpenLink Software
>>> Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
>>> Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
>>> Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/kidehen
>>> Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about
>>> LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Put Bad Developers to Shame
>>> Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration
>>> Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment
>>> Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud.
>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Dbpedia-discussion mailing list
>>> Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Put Bad Developers to Shame
>> Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration
>> Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment
>> Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud.
>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees
>> _______________________________________________
>> Dbpedia-discussion mailing list
>> Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
>>
>>
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Put Bad Developers to Shame
Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration
Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment
Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees
_______________________________________________
Dbpedia-discussion mailing list
Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
