Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC2014 - Natural language question answering engine

2014-03-17 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Abhijit, Understanding of graph structured data, specifically RDF syntax and SPARQL, is a mandatory requirement for working with us. I suggest you to first read the Wikipedia article about RDF [1], then to dig into the official specs [2, 3, 4]. Cheers! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resou

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] An Exception when running the extraction

2014-03-17 Thread Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
The exception occurs because ImageExtractor needs the commons dump, but you didn't download it. The following should be in your download.properties: # Only needed for the ImageExtractor download=commons:pages-articles.xml.bz2 (Copied from download.1.properties.) Just run the download again,

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoc 2014 - Tools to enhance the quality of DBpedia (and DBpedia chapters) data

2014-03-17 Thread João
Hi Mariano, everybody, I went through the code and it looks good. The project is very exciting and I hope I can join you during this summer! Apart of running the extractor and browsing the code, I read this reference [1] and it is one of the most informative sources about dbpedia. Congratulations

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoc 2014 - Tools to enhance the quality of DBpedia (and DBpedia chapters) data

2014-03-17 Thread Alexandru Todor
Hi João, I'll try to answer your questions: (1) I don't know exactly what happened since I only run the live extraction for German, but I assume there was some sort of downtime or error that prevented the update of one of the resources. We'd need to inspect the SPARUL update stream of the dbpedia

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC2014 - Natural language question answering engine

2014-03-17 Thread Abhijit Pratap Singh Tomar
Hi Marco, Thanks for your email. I went through all the links that you provided. I am beginning to find the semantic web concept quite fascinating. I am making progress with the SPARQL tutorial, and I have noticed that as long as I have sufficient knowledge about the dataset, writing queries is no

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoC2014 - Natural language question answering engine

2014-03-17 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
I am not a field expert but the complexity of the automated sparql queries should not be big. Maybe the queries will become big with many triple patterns but not too complex. Here you can get an overview of some query types you *might* encounter: http://lisfs2008.irisa.fr/ocsigen/squall/examples

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] GSoc 2014 - Tools to enhance the quality of DBpedia (and DBpedia chapters) data

2014-03-17 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Alexandru Todor wrote: > Hi João, > > I'll try to answer your questions: > > (1) I don't know exactly what happened since I only run the live > extraction for German, but I assume there was some sort of downtime or > error that prevented the update of one of the r