Did you consider using the keyword search (http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Lookup) ?
for example
http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx/KeywordSearch?QueryString=Is%C3%A8re
2014-06-27 13:46 GMT+02:00 Mohammad Ghufran <emghuf...@gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for your reply. Yes, I tried doing that. If i try to remove the
> accents, i normally get a redirection page in the search results. I can
> then get the resource uri for this result and get the actual resource page.
> However, this only happens sometimes. For example, a region in France
> called Isère has the following page: http://dbpedia.org/page/Is%C3%A8re .
> If i access the page without the accent, I am still redirected to the
> correct page. However, if I search for the plain string in the label, I
> don't get any results. Here is the query I am using:
>
> PREFIX dbpedia-owl: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
> SELECT DISTINCT ?place
> WHERE
> {
> ?place a dbpedia-owl:PopulatedPlace .
> ?place rdfs:label ?label .
> FILTER (str(?label)= "Isere") .
> }
>
> The language is not known a-priori, as i said in my earlier message. I am
> trying to make my code language independent. So I cannot use the language.
>
> What is interesting is the fact that dbpedia itself redirects the url
> http://dbpedia.org/page/Isere to http://dbpedia.org/page/Is%C3%A8re . I
> am wondering how this "magic" is done.
>
> Mohammad Ghufran
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Romain Beaumont <romain.r...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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