Hi Georgi, Thanks for the clarification. Sounds like DBpedia's use of the synsets is completely consistent with the proposed opencyc:synsetDenotes approach. This should be reflected in the next release of OpenCyc.
David On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Georgi Kobilarov <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi David, > > > > the links have been produced by manually mapping Wikipedia infoboxes to > Wordnet synsets. But these links are not maintained anymore (we now have the > Dbpedia ontology for that purpose). > > > > Regarding the property wordnet_type: as you say, the Wordnet synset denotes > a class of which Nokia is an instance of. > > > > Best, > > Georgi > > > > -- > > Georgi Kobilarov > > Freie Universität Berlin > > www.georgikobilarov.com > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *David Baxter > *Sent:* Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:14 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* wordnet links in DBpedia > > > > Hi all, > > I just found an example of links from DBpedia to WordNet synsets that > appears to use synsets as proxies for the "real-world" concepts they denote: > > http://dbpedia.org/resource/Nokia > http://dbpedia.org/property/wordnet_type > http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-company-noun-1 > > Can anyone tell me > > 1. How these triples are produced? > 2. How <http://dbpedia.org/property/wordnet_type> is to be interpreted? > > Looks like this might be relevant to the proposed opencyc:synsetDenotes > property. > > Thanks, > > David Baxter >
