Running all or some of wikipedia ahead of time would not be such a bad idea, imo. My overall point was that the user experience was poor and could use some work--just offering constructive criticism.
On Jan 15, 4:58 am, Alex Ksikes <[email protected]> wrote: > The blank to be guessed is simply the title of the fetched wikipedia > article. However it is true that words such as "of, the, they etc .." > should not be blanked in the question. So for example "king of france" > would be blanked but "of" should not be blanked every where else in > the question... That problem could be resolved by simply using a stop > list. I still fail to see the use of heavy weight NLP methods here. > > We use a yahoo query in order to restrict questions to specific > categories. For example the yahoo search terms for the category > "Movies" could be tv, movies, cinema, actor, actress etc ... > restricted to the site wikipedia.org. > > Here is a the complete set of search terms for each > category:http://github.com/alexksikes/wikitrivia/blob/a6a1956621ace2010310a8b2... > > Maybe we could use something like open calais to guess the category of > a random wikipedia article. However that would require we pre-fetch a > lot of articles before hand.. so we may as well download all of > wikipedia and use their categories instead ... > > 2009/1/14 adelevie <[email protected]>: > > > > > I was imagining open calais to be used as a tool for selecting which > > words/phrases to turn into blanks for questions. For example, with > > open calais, someone would choose to do questions about programming > > languages, for example. Open Calais knows which words are programming > > languages. > > > On Jan 14, 12:43 pm, Alex Ksikes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2009/1/13 adelevie <[email protected]>: > > >> > Great idea, although thus far, it is poorly executed. There needs to > >> > be some way to further limit the topics, as some of these are so > >> > random, they are impossible to answer. Furthermore, sometimes I would > >> > be asked to fill in the blank of a discussion page on wikipedia. Maybe > >> > you should take a look at opencalais to aid with natural language > >> > processing. Good luck. > > >> Don't need something like opencalais for that. You could use the page > >> rank of the wikipedia article (or yahoo site explorer) to get a feel > >> of how difficult a question might be. Also you could always show > >> articles that have an image as a hint to filter out the the bad > >> questions. > > >> There are many improvements for sure and WikiTrivia should be taken > >> much more as a proof of concept. It'd be nice for example to play with > >> different languages. Feel free to have a look at the code and improve > >> on it. > > >> Thank you for the feedback. > > >> > On Jan 11, 11:04 am, Alex K <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hello, > > >> >> WikiTrivia, the trivia game freshly generated from Wikipedia articles > >> >> has been entirely rewritten in webpy and the source code has been made > >> >> available. > > >> >>http://wikitrivia.ksikes.net/http://github.com/alexksikes/wikitrivia/... > > >> >> Please feel free to let me know what you think, > > >> >> Alex > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" 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/webpy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
