Hi, guys - Fernando, container verbs are certainly interesting, but unless I'm missing something I don't think they'll enable quite the use case that Will is talking about. If I understand correctly, a version of what he wants could be done with a "normal" (non-container) command, and another version needs something besides a container.
Will, although I removed it before putting my script on the server, I had a "Freebase type" noun that I was aiming to use very much as you describe. The noun could be re-added with a couple lines of code, and then it would likely be easy to pair that with a slightly modified version of your Freebase search command, resulting in a type-constrained Freebase search. However, that's still not quite what I wanted, because it would effectively split the "suggesting" functionality into two parts: the suggestion of type would happen at the noun level (within the command-suggestion "pane"), whereas the suggestion of individual entities/topics would happen inside the preview pane. Not bad, but it would be great if all of the suggesting could happen within the command-suggestion area, leaving the preview free for actually displaying whatever information the user is after. In order for this to work, though, the Ubiquity parser would need to allow for one argument of a command to be dependent on the value of another argument; and on top of that I think the parser would also need to support a more sophisticated scoring mechanism to allow the best type/entity pairings to bubble to the top of the command suggestions. In any case, when I have a few minutes (probably tomorrow or Monday) I'll take a whack at mating a "Freebase type" noun to your Freebase search command (unless you want to try it first). And thanks for the link to the discussion of the mql_output param to the Feebase search service...I didn't know about that, but it looks very useful! - Gray On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Fernando Takai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Will, > > What you want is a cointainer verb [1]. I did some tests about it, but we > need to do some changes on the Ubiquity core first. > Take a look here [2] to see what i'm trying to do (i don't know if its > going to work...) > > [1] http://labs.toolness.com/trac/ticket/134 > [2] http://gist.github.com/21109 > > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Will Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Hi Gray, >> >> Cool command! >> >> I'd love to see a completely flexible two stage Freebase search >> command where you first choose a type and then an instance. >> >> Example (step 1): >> >> "about" type-name where type-name is "person", "film", "city" or any >> of the thousands of types in Freebase [1] >> >> Examples (step 2) >> "about film braveheart" >> "about actor clooney" >> "about language huaorani" >> >> Also note that you can use the Freebase API to search other sites by >> demanding another site's key. See the discussion at [2] >> If anybody needs help constructing Freebase queries then post on the >> Freebase Developer mailing list. >> >> regards, >> --Will >> (Freebase.com hacker) >> >> [1] http://www.freebase.com/view/type/type >> [2] http://markmail.org/message/svjtdzwqkz6enjep >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Fernando "Takai" > http://flickr.com/photos/supeertakai > http://fernandotakai.wordpress.com > http://fernandotakai.jaiku.com > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
