Hello,
I think you are going to do some preprocessing. For example to handle
accents, you can just remove them (in your program/script/...) before
transforming it to sparql.
Some labels are present in different languages in DBpedia, maybe you could
use that ?
2014-06-27 10:57 GMT+02:00 Mohammad Ghufran <emghuf...@gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I am using dbpedia to work with locations in order to compare them and
> determine if two locations are same / similar and to what extent. Since my
> data source can be user input, the data normally does not match the exact
> resource / label defined in dbpedia.
>
> I am using the sparql endpoint for this (right now, i am using the dbpedia
> endpoint but i intend to use a local mirror at a later stage).
>
> I am looking to address this but still haven't found a good way to do so.
> I give an example here to elaborate. Take for example the
> region Rhône-Alpes in France. If i search for Rhone-Alpes in the label, i
> don't see any results. Neither in the disambiguation pages or even through
> the keyword search (Lookup) api.
>
> Is there a way to address this issue? I want to query such that i get the
> page Rhône-Alpes as one of the results when i search for Rhone-Alpes for
> example. This also extends to labels in different languages. My input does
> not specify the language so the input might be in different languages. For
> instance, Italia, Italy, Italie all refer to the country Italy in different
> languages.
>
> Thank you for any suggestions / help in advance.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ghufran
>
>
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