Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] [Dbpedia-ontology] Mappings wiki is back online

2015-12-10 Thread Nicolas Torzec
Hi Dimitris, Can you share stats on DBpedia mappings?e.g. number of edits per month, number of editors, distribution per location, etc. Cheers.-N. On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 11:43 PM, Dimitris Kontokostas wrote: Dear all As you may have noticed the thread in the discussion list

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Release date for infobox films not parsed

2015-02-18 Thread Nicolas Torzec
would be noisy in terms of data quality. Isn't that so?2. If we delegate to MediaWiki API, is this option scalable if we had to parse the wikidump on daily basis? thanks,Mandar On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Nicolas Torzec wrote: Hi Mandar :) DBpedia does not handle nested templates.

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Release date for infobox films not parsed

2015-02-18 Thread Nicolas Torzec
Hi Mandar :) DBpedia does not handle nested templates. It may work for some specific (simple-enough) templates but it is in no way generalized. That's why consumer-grade projects consuming Wikipedia data either:1) Scrape Wikipedia HTML pages directly: i.e. template interpretation is done by Med

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Advancing the DBpedia ontology

2015-01-26 Thread Nicolas Torzec
+1 on which expressive power for the ontology. It's important for inferences/validations.   -N. From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider To: Dimitris Kontokostas Cc: Nicolas Torzec ; Linked Data community ; "semantic-...@w3.org" ; "dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Advancing the DBpedia ontology

2015-01-23 Thread Nicolas Torzec
Hi Dimitris et al., A) What is the specific use you have in mind? B) Are you thinking about a centralized ontology managed by editors, a user-contributed ontology, or an automatically generated taxonomy? C) How will it relate to other ontologies, taxonomies and schemas? Also, will it relate to Wi

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Problem with geo-coordinate extraction in DBpedia

2014-09-23 Thread Nicolas Torzec
aybe some other people here have a better idea. Cheers, Alexandru On 09/22/2014 10:12 PM, Nicolas Torzec wrote: Hi Alexandru, Unfortunately I am not sure it's that simple. - The coordinates in the infobox have indeed wrong in term of "absolute" values (i.e. wrong

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Problem with geo-coordinate extraction in DBpedia

2014-09-22 Thread Nicolas Torzec
=48 |lats  =49 | longd =144 |longm =57 |longs =47 This is an error in Wikipedia not in DBpedia, you can correct it by editing the source of the Melbourne Wiki page. Cheers, Alexandru On 09/22/2014 07:45 PM, Nicolas Torzec wrote: Hi, It looks like an old problem with the geopar

[Dbpedia-discussion] Problem with geo-coordinate extraction in DBpedia

2014-09-22 Thread Nicolas Torzec
Hi,It looks like an old problem with the geoparsers in DBpedia is still not resolved. Back in 2012, the geo-coordinates extractors were not leveraging the hemisphere information correctly [3], causing some places from the southern hemisphere (e.g. Melbourne) to appear in the northern hemisphere

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] MapReduce expert needed to help DBpedia [as GSoC co-mentor]

2014-03-07 Thread Nicolas Torzec
I understand the need for commitments. Let’s take it offline? -Nicolas. From: Dimitris Kontokostas mailto:kontokos...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>> Date: Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 11:32 PM To: Nicolas Torzec mailto:torz...@yahoo-inc.com>> Cc: "semantic-...@w3.org<mailto

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] MapReduce expert needed to help DBpedia [as GSoC co-mentor]

2014-03-06 Thread Nicolas Torzec
ome projects, and have been thinking about porting it to Hadoop for some time. We may be able to help… -- Nicolas Torzec Yahoo Labs From: Dimitris Kontokostas mailto:kontokos...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>> Date: Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 5:04 AM To: "semantic-...@w3.org<mailto:se

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Wikipedia lists in DBpedia?

2014-03-05 Thread Nicolas Torzec
web pages * Large-scale statistical mining based on content redundancy across tables/pages Also, note that DBpedia had some initiative around table/list extraction in the past: See http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/How_to_edit_DBpedia_Mappings — Nicolas Torzec Yahoo Labs. From: Heiko

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] DBpedia v39 extraction problem.

2013-09-27 Thread Nicolas Torzec
coverage of the infobox extraction? (I haven't checked 3.9 yet…) Cheers, Nicolas. From: Dimitris Kontokostas mailto:kontokos...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>> Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013 11:50 PM To: Nicolas Torzec mailto:torz...@yahoo-inc.com>> Cc: Martin Ovcia

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] DBpedia v39 extraction problem.

2013-09-26 Thread Nicolas Torzec
Confirming that I can no longer find the template information in the raw_infobox_properties_en.nt file. Is this information now available somewhere else? Or is it simply no longer extracted by the DBpedia extraction framework? Template information proved to be useful when developing more advanced

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Number of infoboxes

2013-08-01 Thread Nicolas Torzec
That's consistent with previous analysis I ran directly on Wikipedia EN data dumps. The overall number of infoboxes in Wikipedia EN has consistently been around 45-50% of the total number of article pages (i.e. 4.2M) for the past 3 years. I don't know about other languages. -N. On 8/1/13 12:3

[Dbpedia-discussion] Impact of Wikidata on DBpedia and other projects consuming Wikipedia data...

2013-03-04 Thread Nicolas Torzec
Francois Bozon raised a good point in the Wikimedia XML data dump list today [1]. Basically, as the creation and management of Wikipedia inter-wiki links get migrated from MediaWiki to Wikidata [2], wiki markups for interwiki links are also gradually removed from articles because they can now be r

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Mapping problem for class Film

2013-01-15 Thread Nicolas Torzec
box property are enclosed > in a Plainlist template. > Maybe the extractor does not expect to find a template there? (Question for > the dbpedia devs) > > Cheers > Andrea > > Il giorno 15/gen/2013 18:36, "Nicolas Torzec" ha > scritto: >> Hi ther

[Dbpedia-discussion] Mapping problem for class Film

2013-01-15 Thread Nicolas Torzec
g exists: http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Mapping_en:Infobox_film Any clue? Nicolas. -- Nicolas Torzec. -- Master SQL Server Development, Administration, T-SQL, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS and more. Get SQL Server skills now (includ

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] template parsing bug

2012-10-05 Thread Nicolas Torzec
+1 for a standalone WikiText to Text function. For example, being able to generate a plain text version of a page without a call to a local MediaWiki instance (or to Wikipedia itself) simplifies drastically the porting of the DBpedia extraction framework (aka DEF) onto distributed platform such

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] dbpedia 3.8 in Maven repo

2012-09-15 Thread Nicolas Torzec
gt;> Does anybody know anything about it? I can compile the library myself >> but if this pain can be avoided I would really love to know. >> >> Thanks, >> Piotr >> >> On 2012-08-09 22:56, Nicolas Torzec wrote: >> >>> +1 :) >>> >>

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] How to best choose and use dbpprops for public use in radial tree layout app

2012-08-30 Thread Nicolas Torzec
At Yahoo, for filtering and ranking nodes and relationships in this type of knowledge graphs, we have been using co-occurrence in Web Search queries, Flickr tags (especially for Places), Web pages, and tweets, and various time frames for taking trends and buzziness into account. Overall, the

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] How to best choose and use dbpprops for public use in radial tree layout app

2012-08-29 Thread Nicolas Torzec
ow to use DBpedia data for an app for the general public. > > I'd be a lot more interested in your had an Android, Linux, or Windows > app that I could play with on one of my devices. :-) Count me in! > > Tom > > p.s. Is Wikipedia really 17+? How does Apple enforc

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] dbpedia 3.8 in Maven repo

2012-08-09 Thread Nicolas Torzec
+1 :) Nicolas. On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Piotr Jagielski wrote: > Hello, > > In change log for release 3.8 you write that you "plan to deploy > the DBpedia framework in the main Maven repository, so users don't have > to compile the framework anymore. " That's fantastic news but I checke

[Dbpedia-discussion] Mapping right request

2012-08-07 Thread Nicolas Torzec
Hi, Could someone enable mapping rights for account Nicolastorzec please? I want to be able to improve some mappings for EN and FR. Thanks! Nicolas. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] ANN: DBpedia 3.5 released

2010-04-13 Thread Nicolas Torzec
infobox data sets are extracted? Cheers, Nicolas. -- Nicolas Torzec Yahoo! Labs. > > On 4/12/10 2:06 AM, "Chris Bizer" wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.5. >> >> The new release is based on