Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Introduction

2018-03-17 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
(belated) Welcome, Victor! If you didn't already, you can engage with the project mentors through the project github issue interface. Learning more about DBpedia and working on project-related (or general DBpedia-related) warmup tasks usually helps a lot for the final proposals good luck, Best,

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] New member introduction

2018-03-17 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Welcome, Umair! If you want to join our slack channel go to: https://dbpedia-slack.herokuapp.com/ to get an invitation. wrt the project you are referring to, it is still in scope for this gsoc, we are already working to improve the idea you can subscribe to the issue to get notifications on

[Dbpedia-gsoc] Application submissions

2017-03-29 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Dear students, please do not delay your application submission to the last days, the sooner you submit, the more time you give to the mentors to give you feedback on your application (and improve your chances). Best, Dimitris -- Kontokostas Dimitris

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Reg: Proposal Submission

2017-03-22 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hello Ram, Is step 3 & 4 proposal-specific or something in the GSoC proposal submission steps? You should allow editing until you are ready so don't do any irreversible actions In your proposal, mark the sections that are incomplete and ask the mentors to take a look and give you feedback Best,

[Dbpedia-gsoc] Fwd: GSoC Announcement: GSoC 2017 Student applications are now open!

2017-03-21 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Dear Students, The applications are now open and we are looking forward to receiving your proposals! Read our instructions on how to apply http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2017 *updates for students who already read it*: - we updated our student eligibility criteria (please read it) - we suggest a

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Slack Invite

2017-03-20 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hello Ram, I Sent you an invite as well Cheers, Dimitris On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Ram G Athreya wrote: > Hi Dimitris > > Could I also be invited to the slack channel. > > Thanks > Ram G Athreya > > >

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Invitation to the Slack Channel

2017-03-20 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Agneet, I sent you an invite! Cheers, Dimitris On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Agneet Chatterjee wrote: > Hello everyone, could someone invite me to the Slack Channel so that I can > be part of any discussion that might take place involving GSoC projects? > > Thank

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Gsoc'17 introduction

2017-03-20 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
On Monday, March 20, 2017, Ricardo Usbeck wrote: > Hi, > > the chat bot could be able to use more intent, especially in follow-up > discourse, like give me more details or zooming into another entity. > > However, the issue of resolving similar queries will be

[Dbpedia-gsoc] Fwd: GSoC Announcement: GSoC 2017 student apps open next week!

2017-03-14 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
-- Forwarded message -- From: "'sttaylor' via Google Summer of Code Announce" < google-summer-of-code-annou...@googlegroups.com> Date: Mar 14, 2017 4:43 AM Subject: GSoC Announcement: GSoC 2017 student apps open next week! To: "Google Summer of Code Announce" <

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] List & Table Extractor

2017-03-06 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Welcome to DBpedia Jay, regarding your question, The DBpedia Extraction Framework is the main source of input to DBpedia but it cannot do everything. In parallel, we are working on side projects to extend the coverage and/or quality of our data and this is what these projects are about. Ideally,

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoc Candidate Introduction

2017-03-06 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Welcome to DBpedia Saravana! looks like you already found your matching project good luck & cheers, Dimitris On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Saravana Kumar wrote: > Hey everyone, > > My name is Saravana Kumar. I'm a senior undergrad at College of > Engineering, Guindy

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Starting a project

2017-02-08 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hello Nitish, It is great that you are interested in our projects. All projects can be also offered ouside of GSoC but if you want to participate in GSoC you should go by the gsoc rules and timeline. so, to answer your questions, Yes, you can start working on a project outside of GSoC if the

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] My preferred projects

2017-02-08 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hello Kartik & welcome to DBpedia! Happy to see that you started working on warm up tasks, feel free to ask for feedback on the related project pages Cheers, Dimitris On Monday, February 6, 2017, kartik mudgal wrote: > I've looked through the GSOC'17 ideas page and am

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] "Chatbot for dbpedia"

2017-02-08 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hello Krishanu, Please use the ideas page to ask project-related questions. We'll make sure all mentors are subscribed for student comments / questions Cheers, Dimitris On Tuesday, January 31, 2017, Krishanu Konar wrote:HKrishanuello Krishanu > Hello > > I read the

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Introduction for GSoC 2016

2017-02-08 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hello Richhiey & welcome to DBpedia. It is great that you got familiar with our extraction framework, You may run some sample extractions to get a better feeling of how things work or work on some of the warm up tasks we propose. Cheers, Dimitris On Sunday, January 22, 2017, Richhiey Thomas

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Getting Started

2017-02-08 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Yashwant, We updated our ideas page and we might also add a couple of last minute ideas. Feel free to use the comments on each idea to ask questions or take warm up tasks. Cheers, Dimitris On Friday, January 27, 2017, Yashwant Keswani wrote: > Hi, > > I am

[Dbpedia-gsoc] DBpedia @ GSoC 2017 updates

2017-02-08 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Dear students, We thank you for your enthusiasm and interest on our ideas. We would like to let you know that our application for GSoC 2017 is submitted and our student information page is available here: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2017 We will gradually port all our project ideas on the

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Contibute to Dbpedia

2016-12-16 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Welcome to DBpedia Krishanu! Please have a look here and come back with more questions ;) http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Development http://wiki.dbpedia.org/get-involved (under reconstruction) Cheers, Dimitris On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Krishanu Konar wrote: > Hello

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC 2017

2016-12-09 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Manoli, Welcome to our community! The first thing we always tell new students is to get to know about DBpedia (if the don't already) and come back with questions and areas they are interested in contributing. A great start is here http://wiki.dbpedia.org/learn-about-dbpedia looking forward to

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Want to contribute for DBpedia

2016-11-16 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Himanshu & welcome :) If you wish to be involved with DBpedia you should go with the get-started material we have on the GSoC 2016 page & the website. then, depending on your interests, you can work on related tasks / ideas / issues we have to get more familiar with the project Cheers,

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Introduction and Proposal Feedback Request

2016-03-27 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
hank you for reminding me, but the deadline was already over. I missed my > final proposal submission by few minutes. > However, I am wiling to contribute if I am allowed; given the fact that I > can't be a part of GSoC 2016. > > Thanking You > Ankit > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 2:04 AM

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Introduction and Proposal Feedback Request

2016-03-25 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Ankit and welcome to DBpedia, if you want to work on this through GSoC please submit your application on the system https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ I think the deadline is very close (if not over yet) Cheers, Dimitris On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Ankit Jaiswal

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Interested in "DBpedia Lookup improvements"

2016-03-24 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Welcome Ya Lin, Please read our guidelines and enter your application in https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 4:53 PM, 林雅 wrote: > To Mentor of project DBPedia“DBpedia Lookup improvements”, > > > > > >

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC-2016

2016-03-14 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Harshil & welcome to DBpedia no idea is taken yet, just students interested in ideas :) Ideas with more interested students will probably result in more competition but nothing is fixed yet. At the end we rate all proposals based on competence & completeness per idea and we choose the best X,

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] error when downloading

2016-03-14 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
based on > > Caused by: java.io.IOException: failed to list files in > [/media/dilshan/acdbf529-facc-431e-9355-7b7bc7cc4ab9/ > dilshan/data2/commonswiki] looks like there is a file/dir permission error On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 3:54 AM, Dilshan Pathirana < pathirana...@cse.mrt.ac.lk> wrote: >

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC - 2016

2016-03-12 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Welcome to DBpedia Akul! Please go through the student guide, if you didn't already wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2016 Cheers, Dimitris On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Akul Mehra wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently a Computer Science sophomore at Maharaja Surajmal Institute > of

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Dbpedia-gsoc Digest, Vol 17, Issue 7

2016-03-09 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> dbpedia-gsoc-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> dbpedia-gsoc-ow...@lists.sourceforge.net >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is mo

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Introduction and Interest in Table Extractor Project

2016-03-09 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Andrey & welcome, I sent you a slack invitation, regarding your project questions, I think it is best if you ask them on the ideas page directly Cheers, Dimitris On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Sandro Coelho wrote: > Welcome to DBpedia Andrey! > > Nice to know

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Welcome all to DBpedia @ GSoC16

2016-03-03 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Aishwary, (adding the list back) Well, we always have some projects that we would prefer or give higher priority over others but this almost never works in the end. It always depends on the student applications. if we get an exceptional application for a lower priority project and a moderate

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Reg: Contributing to DBpedia

2016-03-03 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hello Aishwary & welcome to DBpedia! If you didn't already, please go through wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2016 to see all the steps you need to take to participate as a gsoc student if you are not interested in gsoc we can more the discussion on the DBpedia developers list Cheers, Dimitris On Sat,

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Hello again!

2016-03-03 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
ent in Seoul National University in South > Korea. I participated in the GSoC in 2015 with DBPedia! I was working with > Ruben Verborgh and Dimitris Kontokostas on the Linked Data Fragments Server > that Ruben designed. It was an amazing experience. > > I'd love to be able

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Introduction-Jiawei (Viclan) Wu

2016-03-03 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Jiawei Wu & welcome to DBpedia! we are always available if you have any questions / clarifications on the ideas you are interested in:) Cheers, Dimitris On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Jiawei Wu wrote: > Hi DBpedia team, > > I am Jiawei (Viclan) Wu, and you can call me

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Contributing

2016-02-10 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Varun, We will soon use slack but we are not ready yet. Can you share some details on the mailing list? Cheers, Dimitris On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Varun Joshi wrote: > Hi, > I'm Varun Joshi. I'm interested in contributing to DBPedia and DBPedia > Spotlight. I

[Dbpedia-gsoc] Hurry up - deadline approaching

2015-03-27 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
we might enable minor editing on a per case basis but don't expect this to be the rule. Best of luck to everyone! Cheers, Dimitris -- Kontokostas Dimitris -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Need Help

2015-03-24 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Himesh, You should read the following to get to know how GSoC works http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2015/ideas#h460-3 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/ in brief, you have to apply until Friday to

[Dbpedia-gsoc] Hurry!!! Few days left - Re: Student application period open

2015-03-23 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
submit the more time you'll have to improve;) Best, Dimitris On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Dimitris Kontokostas jimk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear students, The application period just started and you are all welcome to start submitting your applications. From our experience it's better to focus

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Introduction + question about 5.8

2015-03-23 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
articles the get a better idea - Jens Lehmann, Robert Isele, Max Jakob, Anja Jentzsch, Dimitris Kontokostas, Pablo N. Mendes, Sebastian Hellmann, Mohamed Morsey, Patrick van Kleef, Sören Auer, Christian Bizer. [image: PDF]DBpedia – A Large-scale, Multilingual Knowledge Base Extracted

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Application process

2015-03-21 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi John, You should submit early in melange and the mentors will make their comments there. You will be able to revise your application and respond to the mentor comments until the deadline. Sent from my mobile, please excuse my brevity. On Mar 21, 2015 7:57 PM, john okorie cokori...@gmail.com

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC '15 - Interest in 5.14 (Scalable querying of the live DBpedia data stream)

2015-03-20 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Pablo Estrada polecito...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I have a couple questions then We would really suggest changing the current server, as building a new server will probably not be as sustainable. I understand, and agree. : ) I see that the

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] ideas for Google Summer of Code

2015-03-18 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Dear David, You are of course welcome to apply for our GSoC ideas. As for Dr. Li Dingcheng, we would be glad to increase our mentor number, however, since we don't know him personally we 'd rather have a DBpedia mentor as your main mentor and Dr. Li Dingcheng as a co-mentor. Would this be fine

[Dbpedia-gsoc] Student application period open

2015-03-17 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
we did the last years ;) Cheers, Dimitris -- Kontokostas Dimitris -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSOC newbie

2015-03-14 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Amitrajit welcome, Until the application period we keep all conversations public and we discuss any question about the project in this mailing list. There is already some discussion on this project if you search the ml archives and you are welcome to ask more detailed questions. Marco, the

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Introduction - GSoC 2015

2015-03-11 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Chenxi, Since this also involves DBpedia Live we might need to implement some changes / additions in the Live changeset format. You'll probably not need to implement the changes but work on the requirements Best, Dimitris On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Ruben Verborgh ruben.verbo...@ugent.be

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC 2015 Introduction

2015-03-09 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Alexey welcome to DBpedia! On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Алексей Степанов fec...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, My name is Alex, I'm a first year aspirant of Moscow State University of department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics. I'm interested in one of the next topics:

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC 2015

2015-03-09 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Oleksandr welcome I'd suggest you narrow down your topics to very few 1-2 in order to be able to better focus on your final proposal. Let us know if you have any questions Cheers, DImitris On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Oleksandr Olgashko alexandrolg...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'd

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Introduction - GSoC 2015

2015-03-09 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Chenxi Li welcome to DBpedia Ruben is the main mentor for this idea. Please read the related links and let us know if you have any questions. We can additionally give you some warm-up tasks if you want Cheers, Dimitris On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Chenxi Li spirit...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Monthly Dev telco

2014-12-08 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Dimitris Kontokostas kontokos...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de wrote: Just a note to new-comers (who are of course more then welcome) The previous setting was to have a telco every first Wednesday of each month. We will continue with the same approach but the day might

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Linking to external multimedia data sources

2014-03-29 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
-27 14:50 GMT+09:00 Dimitris Kontokostas jimk...@gmail.com: Hello Kenji, This warm up task involves coding and is too small to break down into pieces. May I suggest you create a prototype for a panoramio [1] wrapper based on the flicr wrapper code? Since it is a warm up task, we don't

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Linking to external multimedia data sources

2014-03-26 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hello Kenji, This warm up task involves coding and is too small to break down into pieces. May I suggest you create a prototype for a panoramio [1] wrapper based on the flicr wrapper code? Since it is a warm up task, we don't expect this to work but maybe lay the grounds for the actual coding

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC2014 - Natural language question answering engine

2014-03-20 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
of emails in quick succession but please bear with me. I intend to finish the first draft today and submit it to you for review. I apologize for any inconvenience) On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Dimitris Kontokostas jimk...@gmail.com mailto:jimk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Abhijit

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Gsoc2014(Automated Wikidata mappings to DBpedia ontology)

2014-03-18 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Nitesh welcome to our community, We discussed this project with some students already. You can look for related discussions and warm up tasks on our mailing list archive [1]. What you should definately do is explore the dbpedia mappings wiki [2] and how Wikidata properties are used. A good

[Dbpedia-gsoc] Application submission

2014-03-18 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Dear students, Please submit your applications as soon as possible in order to get early feedback. After the deadline modification are not allowed. Best, Dimitris -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC2014 Extraction using Map Reduce

2014-03-17 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
does a dump comprise ? What is the processing that you need to employ to each dump ? Finally, please provide any tutorials or material that I should need to go over in order to write my proposal. Thanks, Abhijit On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Dimitris Kontokostas jimk...@gmail.comwrote

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC 2014 Student Applicaation

2014-03-15 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hello Divyum, You should create your application through the melange system as text (with markup). You are also allowed to post it on the mailing list for public review if you want. We already provide a template for this here: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2014/apply Best, Dimtiris On Sat, Mar

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC 2014 Student Applicaation

2014-03-15 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
a complete document, so can't I just upload the file? Please help me regarding it, I could not get how to submit my application. regards, Divyum On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Dimitris Kontokostas jimk...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Divyum, You should create your application through the melange

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] A question about moving our documentation from the old wiki to the new wiki on Github

2014-03-14 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hello Wencan, We actually meant only the developer related documentation, which is mainly the following pages http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Development http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Documentation http://wiki.dbpedia.org/DeveloperDocumentation/Extractor http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Internationalization/Guide

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] A question about moving our documentation from the old wiki to the new wiki on Github

2014-03-14 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Regarding the syntax, no, there is no easy way to do it. On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Dimitris Kontokostas jimk...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Wencan, We actually meant only the developer related documentation, which is mainly the following pages http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Development http

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Question of proposal writing

2014-03-14 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
This is not a form to fill of course but try to keep the same structure (sections) to make it easier for the mentors Best, Dimitris On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Cong Wang joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Regarding proposal writing, are we going to just fill out the application form?

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] DBpedia Extraction Framework - MapReduce idea update

2014-03-14 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Dimitris Kontokostas kontokos...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de wrote: Hi, We finally got our mentors for this idea (in cc). Nicolas will update the project description soon and you will use this as a base to build you applications. In the meanwhile you can experiment

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] (no subject)

2014-03-13 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Brij welcome to our community, There is already a lot of discussion on this idea in the mailing list [1]. You may read these threads and come back with questions. Best, Dimtiris [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/dbpedia/mailman/message/32096545/ On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Brij Mohan Lal

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Problems Setting up Maven in Eclipse

2014-03-11 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Leandro, We use Intellij as our preferred IDE [1]. Scala did not perform well in eclipse sometime ago (so sure about the status now) Cheers, DImitris [1] https://github.com/dbpedia/extraction-framework/wiki/Setting-up-IntelliJ-IDEA On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Leandro Doctors

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC Introduction

2014-03-11 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Yi-ting and welcome, These should do for now. Once you are done you can ask for clarifications or we can give you more tasks Best, Dimtiris On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Yi-ting Tsao yiting.t...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, My name is Yi-ting Tsao. I am a PhD student in Computer

[Dbpedia-gsoc] DBpedia Extraction Framework - MapReduce idea update

2014-03-11 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
/ConfigLoader.scala [3] https://github.com/dbpedia/extraction-framework/blob/master/scripts/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/scripts/WikipediaDumpSplitter.scala -- Dimitris Kontokostas Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig Research Group: http://aksw.org Homepage:http://aksw.org

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC2014 - Pattern Discovery and Knowledge Base Completion

2014-03-11 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Abhijit welcome to our community, There is already some threads discussing this idea [1]. Please go through them and you can come back for questions. Best, Dimitris [1] On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Abhijit Pratap Singh Tomar apt...@nyu.eduwrote: Hi, My name is Abhijit. I am a

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC2014 Extraction using Map Reduce

2014-03-06 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hello Abhijit and welcome to the DBpedia community, please take a look at the following pages for details and feel free to ask questions http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2014/ideas/ExtractionwithMapReduce/

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC2014 - Interested in working on extraction with MapReduce

2014-03-06 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Nilesh welcome to the DBpedia community, You seem familiar with wikipedia dump processing and wikihadoop might fit here too. However, we already have our own library that can download, process and split (zipped) dumps so let's see if this fits the requirements. As you probably already

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Wikimedia Commons extraction

2014-03-06 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Gaurav and welcome to the DBpedia community, We also believe there is a lot of information in commons that is waiting to be extracted :) In order to improve your application you should first get familiar with the DBpedia extraction framework. A good start is to read the latest DBpedia article

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSOC - master thesis

2014-03-04 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hello Ali welcome to the DBpedia community, You are of course welcome to apply to one of our ideas [1] or propose one of your own . Did you find anything of interest to you? You can ask for details through this mailing list. Best, Dimitris [1] wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2014/ideas On Tue, Mar 4,

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSOC 2014 - Ontology Consistency check

2014-02-28 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Ankur, There is already some work done in this area. see the following: [1] L. Buhmann and J. Lehmann. Universal OWL axiom enrichment for large knowledge bases. In Proceedings of EKAW 2012, pages 57–71. Springer, 2012. [2] L. Buhmann and J. Lehmann. Pattern based knowledge base enrichment. In

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC'14 Testing Crowdsourcing

2014-02-27 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Nishant welcome to the DBpedia community. The idea you chose is very interesting and needed in order to move DBpedia forward. One thing that you should know is that you will have to work with Scala code (and maybe a little Java) so one of your main tasks is to get familiar with Scala. [1]

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Handshaking moments... Hi.

2014-02-08 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hello Ankur and welcome to the community, IIRC Marco Fossati suggested this topic (or at least added the existing publication links). Marco, can you point Ankur to additional resources? Best, Dimtiris On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Ankur Padia padiaan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone,

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] DBpedia Better Display

2013-04-30 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr ___ Dbpedia-gsoc mailing list Dbpedia-gsoc@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-gsoc -- Kontokostas Dimitris -- Kontokostas Dimitris

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Nice to meet you all

2013-04-28 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Yoshinari welcome! On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:00 AM, 藤沼祥成 fujinum...@gmail.com wrote: Dear DBpedia developers, Nice to meet you all, my name is Yoshinari Fujinuma and currently I am a graduate student interested in natural language processing and data mining. I recently read a paper

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Question about project work permission

2013-04-25 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Yexi, it's a pity that you can't participate in GSoC. DBpedia DBpedia Spotlight are both open source projects and contributions are always very welcome! You can tell us how you want to contribute (code, documentation, ideas, ...) and we will happily guide you Cheers, Dimitris On Thu, Apr

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Proposal for Massive extraction of triples from Media Wikis

2013-04-24 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Jiri welcome! It is good that the last few days we started covering most of our ideas with submissions :) we need to double check but I also think that you are eligible for GSoC. I took a quick look at your application on melange but the project description proposed architecture are so not

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] [Dbpedia-discussion] 'Person' disambiguation to verify Identity over the web

2013-04-23 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Dileepa welcome, (switching to the gsoc mailing list) We prepared a start-up guide for candidate students so maybe you can take some time to read that too. http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2013/ideas#h254-2 Regarding the existing ideas you mentioned, you are welcome to ask any questions or warm

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] 4.11. Interface / Power tool for DBpedia testing metadata

2013-04-23 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Anastasios, I agree with Sebastian, this tool targets advanced users so it should make their life easier. Some extra information on the back-end. Error data will be stored in a triple store so we will use SPARQL for retrieving and SPARUL for updating. The data we will store for every error

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] [Dbpedia-discussion] Gsoc Project

2013-04-21 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hello welcome to DBpedia+Spotlight GSoC ! All GSoC related talk takes place in our GSoC mailing list. So, please read the guide we prepared for candidate students and come back with more questions :) http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2013/ideas#h254-2 Best, Dimitris On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 2:04 PM,

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Spotlight Task: Extract the necessary DBpedia data directly from the Wikipedia dump

2013-04-16 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Jo, This is a good interdisciplinary task ;) About the extraction script, DBpedia now uses a predefined folder structure for locating dumps / extracting data and follows the wIkipedia dumps structure [1]. There are two options here 1) Spotlight adapts the configuration to accommodate that 2)

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] Regarding the Idea Design a better / interactive display page. for GSoC 2013

2013-04-16 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Shivani Poddar shivani.podda...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Dimitris Kontokostas kontokos...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de wrote: Hi Shivani, Like any PHP/MySQL this code read from your (triple-store) database and generates an HTML