For those interested this type of text synthesis, it can be done by using finite-state automata and transducers (FST's). The simplest way to make them is by cross-compiling into Lua from some other known form. John
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]> wrote: > For now, we have no plans for Wikidata to create articles. This would, > in my opinion, meddle too much with the autonomy of the Wikipedia > language projects. > > What will be possible is to facilitate the creation of such bots, as > some data that might be used for the article might be taken from and > maintained in Wikidata, and the creation of templates that use data > from Wikidata. > > Wikidata currently has no plans for creating text using natural > language generation techniques. We would love for someone else to do > this kind of awesome on top of Wikidata. > > I hope this helps, > Denny > > > > > 2012/10/18 Nikola Smolenski <[email protected]>: >> On 18/10/12 09:25, Steven Walling wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Nikola Smolenski<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> The need for such bots should cease after Wikidata is fully deployed. I >>>> suggest to interested programmers that they should direct their effort >>>> there. >>> >>> >>> Why is that the case? >>> >>> I didn't understand the scope of Wikidata to include actual creation >>> of articles that don't exist. Only to provide data about topics >>> across projects. Sure, that might be extremely helpful to someone with a >>> bot to populate species articles, but I'm skeptical that Wikidata would >>> or should be creating millions of articles about such things. If you >>> consider something even slightly more controversial than species, such as >>> schools, many projects would not welcome a third party mass-creating pages >>> about a topic that is described in Wikidata. >> >> >> Wikidata won't need to create articles. Rather, if you are trying to see a >> page without an article, Wikipedia will check if an item with appropriate >> name exists in Wikidata and generate the article on the fly if Wikipedia has >> a local article template for this type of article. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > Project director Wikidata > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin > Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das > Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
