Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Lookup service results for "building"

2014-04-28 Thread Heiko Paulheim
Hi María, I am not a total expert here, but as far as I know, the sorting is only done based on RefCount. In most cases, this works reasonably well, but there are some odd effects just as the one that you found. Best, Heiko Am 28.04.2014 10:15, schrieb María Poveda: > Thanks Heiko, > >th

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Lookup service results for "building"

2014-04-28 Thread María Poveda
Thanks Heiko, that makes things more clear. For some reason I was expecting that resource to be among the first results as the string matching between the input and the resource is higher. Is it considered during the calculations as well or it is based just in the RefCount? Just out of curiosity

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Lookup service results for "building"

2014-04-28 Thread Heiko Paulheim
Hi María, the service is working as expected. The results are ordered by RefCount (i.e., how often the respective Wikipedia article is linked from another one) in descending order. By default, the service returns the top 5 results, and http://dbpedia.org/resource/Building is simply not among t

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Lookup service results for "building"

2014-04-23 Thread Mariano Rico
Hi María, yes, it is strange. The wikipedia page exists, also exists in DBpedia as you mention... May be the index is out of date. I do not know the update policy. Perhaps people responsible for the maintenance of the service (Pablo, Max, Matt) could give you some hint. Best regards, -- Mariano

[Dbpedia-discussion] Lookup service results for "building"

2014-04-21 Thread María Poveda
Hi, I'm using the dbpedia lookup service and I'm surprised I do not get http://dbpedia.org/resource/Building when asking for http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx/KeywordSearch?QueryString=building. Is it the expected behavior? In that case, what should be my query in order to get that reso