Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

2018-12-15 Thread Scott MacLeod
Thanks, Ariel, Denny, and Wikimedians, Re your observations, I wonder, conceptually, if the end-to-end Translation approach of Google Translate would render what you suggest, Ariel (e.g. someone could translate an article from a language Wikipedia and this would produce a single translation i.e.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

2018-12-15 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Ariel, Denny, and Wikimedians, I sent this at noon today, but it didn't go through to this email address, so am re-sending now from here. Suggestions about how these email lists might work differently? Best, Scott Scott MacLeod 12:01 PM (5 hours ago) to Wikimedia Thanks, Ariel, Denny,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

2018-12-10 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi Ariel, thanks for the very thoughtful question. I got asked this question every time I present it, and during the Blue Sky presentation this question - or a variation of it - was asked three times. It really is on top of people's mind! My answer is half inconsistent, I am afraid, because I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

2018-11-15 Thread Ariel Glenn WMF
I want to add a caution about the idea of translating one article for all audiences. Even articles on some plants or animals will contain different information depending on their role in the communities of the speakers of a given language; how much more will articles about some politician or a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

2018-11-15 Thread Leila Zia
Denny, thanks for writing and rewriting this piece. I finally got a chance to go through it end-to-end. Challenge accepted! :) Here are a few early thoughts, and I look forward to discussing it with you and others further. * I tend to agree with you that the challenges of artificial intelligence

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

2018-11-13 Thread Dariusz Jemielniak
an interesting concept indeed! dj On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 5:36 PM Denny Vrandečić mailto:vrande...@gmail.com>> wrote: The extended whitepaper that was presented at the DL workshop is now available here: http://simia.net/download/abstractwikipedia_whitepaper.pdf Still not a proper scientific

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

2018-11-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
The extended whitepaper that was presented at the DL workshop is now available here: http://simia.net/download/abstractwikipedia_whitepaper.pdf Still not a proper scientific paper (no references, notv situated in related work), but going into a bit more detail on the ideas on the first paper

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

2018-09-29 Thread Samuel Klein
I just saw this on the conference program! It looks wonderful. Curious about the estimated magnitudes :) Thank you for sharing. On Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 2:32 PM Denny Vrandečić wrote: > Semantic Web languages allow to express ontologies and knowledge bases in a > way meant to be particularly

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

2018-09-29 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Semantic Web languages allow to express ontologies and knowledge bases in a way meant to be particularly amenable to the Web. Ontologies formalize the shared understanding of a domain. But the most expressive and widespread languages that we know of are human natural languages, and the largest