Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] QA engine

2014-03-13 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Brij and welcome to our community! Have a look at the following threads [1, 2] for more detailed discussions about the project. Since research in this area is very active, THE warm-up task is to maximize code porting from existing projects. Cheers! [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/dbpedia/mailma

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] QA engine (was Fwd: Request to access experimental code)

2014-02-28 Thread Marco Fossati
Also, I think a crucial point will be the multilingual capabilities of the tool. In this way, all the DBpedia chapters can benefit from it. So, the first implementation should focus on very simple questions, but in multiple languages. WH questions would be great. Of course, this requires languag

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] QA engine (was Fwd: Request to access experimental code)

2014-02-28 Thread Ankur Padia
Hello Marco, I think Google Translator API would come handy to perform the conversion of an foreign language question to English language question for cases where particular knowledge or triple is missing [2] in given chapter and then after firing it against English Knowledge Base which do ha

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] QA engine (was Fwd: Request to access experimental code)

2014-03-01 Thread Ankur Padia
Hello Marco, This is inform that I am resending a copy of the mail send before as I forgot to CC the author of the referred paper who is working in the direction of development of QA system using DL as tool for language representation. I think Google Translator API would come handy to per

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] QA engine (was Fwd: Request to access experimental code)

2014-03-02 Thread Pablo N. Mendes
I just want to suggest caution with multilinguality. Doesn't seem to me like an easy problem. QA is already hard enough in one language, if one tries to solve it for all languages at once, it will be overwhelming in three months. I'd suggest focusing on English, but not hardcoding anything that is

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] QA engine (was Fwd: Request to access experimental code)

2014-03-03 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi everyone, On 3/3/14, 7:55 AM, Sourish Dasgupta wrote: > Hello all, > > I agree with Marco that we should be concentrating on English for the > moment. This is because every language has some innate characteristic > linguistic nuances which may not be found in other languages. > > However, I sti

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] QA engine (was Fwd: Request to access experimental code)

2014-03-05 Thread Ankur Padia
Hello everyone, I agree with Marco for the value addition of multilingual feature (if solved even for subset of the language). However, the overwhelming nature of the problem will also be important when time is considered. Moreover, Wikipedia have 285 versions (i.e. 285 languages) as of August

Re: [Dbpedia-gsoc] QA engine (was Fwd: Request to access experimental code)

2014-03-07 Thread Pablo N. Mendes
What about Sourish and Ankur each choose a subset of the QA pipeline? On Mar 5, 2014 12:53 AM, "Ankur Padia" wrote: > Hello everyone, > >I agree with Marco for the value addition of multilingual feature (if > solved even for subset of the language). However, the overwhelming nature > of the