Perhaps someone does not know, .. It is a city called Oslo in Marshall County, Minnesota. ;)
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 5:00 PM, John Erling Blad <[email protected]> wrote: > The search is a kind of stupid dialogue system, and it only has a user > model that is sensitive for language. A better dialogue system with an > individual user model could use location as a hint for context. There > are several heavy books about that topic! > > If I search for "Oslo" and live in Norway it is highly likely that I > want the article about the city in Norway. If I live in Marshall > County, Minnesota, it is not so obvious that I want the city in Norway > to be ranked first. But what if I live in Norway and have just > searched for Marshall County? It is not easy to get these things > right, and it is a lot more difficult than just adding some aliases. > The aliases can solve the alternate label problem, but it can not > solve the user context problem. > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote: >> Andy, >> >> I know we have an alias parameter...but... >> >> Do you want to set that alias on 24,000 Universities ? I don't. >> But perhaps a simple backend script could do it...sure. >> >> My point is to all, that having a wiser Wikidata Search seems like a logical >> approach, and it doesn't change or skew the intent or meaning of the data as >> the rest of you have raised that concern. Its just a smarter Search, that >> is more helpful to folks finding entities and properties. >> >> >> Thad >> +ThadGuidry >> >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 15 June 2015 at 02:54, Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > It seems advantageous to somehow tell Wikidata Search that when someone >>> > types Harvard College to interchange and also look for Harvard >>> > University, >>> > and vice versa. >>> >>> This is what the "alias" parameter is for. >>> >>> -- >>> Andy Mabbett >>> @pigsonthewing >>> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
