Hi Tom, all, > This is now, finally, available: > http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/44818.pdf
Yes. > I'm going to assume that the lack of answer to this question over the last > four months, the lack of updates on the project, and the fact no one is even > bothering to respond to issues means that this project is dead and > abandoned. That's pretty sad. For an internship, it sounds like a cool > project and a decent result. As an actual serious attempt to make productive > use of the Freebase data, it's a weak, half-hearted effort by Google. You have a very fair point and I apologize for our silence. Thomas P.-T. was working on this full-time during his internship, all other project members based on Google's famous-infamous (1)20% time agreement. Not as an excuse, but as an explanation. I have started triaging, assigning, and working on issues yesterday, and plan to do more work in the coming days. > Is there any interest in the Wikidata community for making use of the > Freebase data now that Google has abandoned their effort, or is there too > much negative sentiment against it to make it worth the effort? Please see Marco Fossati's email and my explanations from above. > p.s. I'm surprised that none of the stuff mentioned below is addressed in > the paper. Was it already submitted by the beginning of October? This is the fact indeed, it was initially submitted to the WWW Research Track (http://www2016.ca/calls-for-papers/call-for-research-papers.html) and then re-routed to the Industry Track. Cheers, Tom -- Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee (blog.tomayac.com, twitter.com/tomayac) Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Matthew Scott Sucherman, Paul Terence Manicle Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.29 (GNU/Linux) iFy0uwAntT0bE3xtRa5AfeCheCkthAtTh3reSabiGbl0ck0fjumBl3DCharaCTersAttH3b0ttom.hTtP5://xKcd.c0m/1181/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
