Thanks a lot for your feedback Rupert.
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Rupert Westenthaler < rupert.westentha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Andreas > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Andreas Kuckartz <a.kucka...@ping.de> > wrote: > > Dileepa Jayakody: > >> I have successfully implemented and tested the foaf disambiguation > engine > >> with the help of Stanbol community including Rupert, Rafa and Andreas. > > > > +1 and thanks to Rupert and Rafa from here as well ! > > > > From my viewpoint working with Dileepa and Antonio was very rewarding. > Thanks for all the hard work both of them put into their GSoC > projects. > > >> Please have a look at the disambiguation-foaf engine, try it out and > give > >> your comments for improvements. I appreciate your advice very much. > >> I shall also create a Stanbol Jira with all details and attach the > >> source-code and built bundle after finalizing the project. > > > > I had a look at the source. IMO using the 'connectnes' of an entity > with suggested one is something that should work well for any schema > and is not just limited to FOAF. +1. It doesn't necessarily have to be FOAF. The URI-reference type properties of any schema/vocabulary can be evaluated for connectedness by processing correlated links. > In addition doing so should be > relatively cheap (in comparison to calculating shortest paths as dome > by the engine implemented by Antonio). In addition it can also work > for entities originating from different vocabularies (if they refer > some common resources) and does not require users to build up special > index structures (as it can directly work on the relations in the > vocabulary). > > To give a concrete example I could image to use such an engine to > disambiguate persons with the same name but related to different > companies as define within an CRM management system of a company. > > +1 > > What do others think regarding inclusion of Dileepa's engine in Apache > > Stanbol ? > > > > Thats the goal. For that Dileepa you will need to attach the source of > your engine as attachment to STANBOL-1161. After that I can add your > code to the Stanbol SVN (most likely to a branch where we can make > further adaptions before including it to the trunk). > > Yes, I will do so and continue working with the community to imrove the engine. > Also note that there is also the freebase disambiguation engine from > Antonio (STANBOL-1157) and I also noticed that both the foaf and the > freebase disambiguation engine do share some code with the > disambiguation-mlt engine. So maybe it would be the best to create a > branch with all this disambiguation engines and try to extract some > cross cutting functionalities to a common module. First candidates of > such functionalities would be a Java API for representing > disambiguation relevant data extracted from present > fise:TextAnnotation and their suggestions (fise:EntityAnnotation) or a > API for defining disambiguation contexts (such as sliding windows). > > +1. We realized that many engines require to work with common abstractions for fist:EntityAnnotation and fise:TextAnnotation. Therefore it will be helpful to developers if can build such common building blocks as APIs. Looking fwd to work more on Stanbol on these parts. Thanks, Dileepa > > best > Rupert > > > -- > | Rupert Westenthaler rupert.westentha...@gmail.com > | Bodenlehenstraße 11 ++43-699-11108907 > | A-5500 Bischofshofen >
