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 ----- 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 >> > >> > -- >> > Ashwin.S.Ravichandran >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > > > -- > Ashwin.S.Ravichandran > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
