On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Fabian M. Suchanek <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Wikidata team, > > I am writing on behalf of the YAGO team at the Max Planck Institute > for Informatics in Saarbruecken [1]. We have heard about the Wikidata > project, and we are very excited to learn that you aim to launch a > free knowledge base in the spirit of Wikipedia. > > We would like to get in touch with you -- also to see whether or how > we could help on the long run. Let me briefly tell you what we have on > our side: As you might know, YAGO is knowledge graph that has been > extracted automatically from the infoboxes and categories of > Wikipedia. We have evaluated YAGO manually and achieved a precision of > 95%, meaning that statistically speaking, only 5 out of 100 statements > in the knowledge graph are extracted wrongly. We also have a link of > the Wikicategories to the WordNet taxonomy (again with 95% precision), > and type checking methods for the extracted statements. Should these > things ever be useful to you, we would be happy to help.
Great to hear. > I will be at the WWW conference next week. In case some of you are > there, too, I'd be happy to get in touch to learn more about your > current work. Denny Vrandečić will be there for Wikidata. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
