Could you clarify how exactly do you want to generate data for
Taxobox? [1] Do you plan to use Natural Language Processing? Or  do
you want to do the opposite and you want to parse the template like
guys from dbpedia.org?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Taxobox
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Yury Katkov




On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Ashwin Ravichandran <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Martjin,
>
> The data for the Taxobox can be obtained from Wikipedia, itself, can't it?
> Imagine, we had a to generate the template for the animal "Elephant".
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant.  We could write a python script
> which would be able to generate the data and store it in the Taxonomy
> template. And, we can choose it to generate equivalently in the display
> template.
>
> We can generate the taxobox using the Lua Template or we can derive our own
> template which would make it more user friendly.
>
> Regards,
> Ashwin
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Martijn Hoekstra
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hey Ashwin,
>>
>> Where are you getting the data for the taxobox? Does it need human
>> supervision? If not, depending on how heavy this is, this could be a
>> very cool Lua Template, where it can be used to generate it
>> dynamically.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Ashwin Ravichandran <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hey,
>> >
>> > I am very much interested in the idea of a Taxobox. I have an interesting
>> > method of generating it using a basic Python script. It would gather all
>> > the data using the basic Python application and would be able to store it
>> > in the taxonomy templates and we can display according with respect to
>> the
>> > display templates.
>> >
>> > I will look into the merits and de - merits of the Generation of
>> Automatic
>> > Taxobox and you will be receiving my proposal in the following week.
>> >
>> > I just need to know whether I am on the right track here?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Ashwin
>> >
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