I could offer an interface: https://toolserver.org/~magnus/thetalkpage/
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Mingli Yuan <mingli.y...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Markus, > > About the background: > > One is related with my current work and I can not say it too much. But > another story, I can say it publicly. > > After playing with wikidata for a while, I realised that we have the > potential to create a WolframAlpha-like application. To achieve this, what > we need are only a indexer, a generator, a reasoner and a traversor. > > Take a look at simplenlg ( https://code.google.com/p/simplenlg/ ), it can > take claim triples and transform them into sentences of questions. We then > index these the answer by question sentences, the answer could be provided > by wikidata claims. > > And then we get a QA engine with weak abilities. i.e. > * they only know who are Enistein's father and children, and do not know > that grandfather is the father's father. > * they only know which planets belong to the Sun system, and they do not > know which is the biggest, the farest, etc. > > So if we add some axiom into the system and also with a reasoner and a > traversor. We have the potential to enumerate all possible *simple* > questions and answers of human knowledge. Then we get a QA engine with > strong abilities. > > These are what in my brain now. I know these kinds of things are never > easy, but they are possible in the near future. > > Regards, > Mingli > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Markus Krötzsch < > mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote: > >> Hi Mingli, >> >> thanks, this very interesting, but I think I need a bit more context to >> understand what you are doing and why. >> >> Is your goal to create a library for accessing Wikidata from Clojure >> (like a Clojure API for Wikidata)? Or is your goal to use logical inference >> over Wikidata and you just use Clojure as a tool since it was most >> convenient? >> >> To your question: >> >> > >> > * Do we have a long term plan to evolve wikidata towards a >> > semantic-rich dataset? >> > >> >> There are no concrete designs for adding reasoning features to Wikidata >> so far (if this is what you mean). There are various open questions, >> especially related to inferencing over quantifiers. But there are also >> important technical questions, especially regarding performance. I intend >> to work the theory out in more detail soon (that is: "How should logical >> rules over the Wikidata data model look work in principle?"). The >> implementation then is the next step. I don't think that any of this will >> be part of the core features of Wikidata soon, but hopefully we can set up >> a useful external service for Wikidata search and analytics (e.g., to check >> for property constraint violations in real time instead of using custom >> code and bots). >> >> Cheers, >> >> Markus >> >> >> >> On 05/08/13 17:30, Mingli Yuan wrote: >> >>> Hi, folks, >>> >>> After one night quick work, I had gave a proof-of-concept to demonstrate >>> the feasibility that we can combine Wikidata and Clojure logic >>> programming together. >>> >>> The source code is at here: >>> https://github.com/mountain/**knowledge<https://github.com/mountain/knowledge> >>> >>> An example of an entity: >>> https://github.com/mountain/**knowledge/blob/master/src/** >>> entities/albert_einstein.clj<https://github.com/mountain/knowledge/blob/master/src/entities/albert_einstein.clj> >>> >>> Example of types: >>> https://github.com/mountain/**knowledge/blob/master/src/**meta/types.clj<https://github.com/mountain/knowledge/blob/master/src/meta/types.clj> >>> >>> Example of predicates: >>> https://github.com/mountain/**knowledge/blob/master/src/** >>> meta/properties.clj<https://github.com/mountain/knowledge/blob/master/src/meta/properties.clj> >>> >>> Example of inference: >>> https://github.com/mountain/**knowledge/blob/master/test/** >>> knowledge/test.clj<https://github.com/mountain/knowledge/blob/master/test/knowledge/test.clj> >>> >>> Also we found it is very easy to get another language versions of the >>> data other than English. >>> >>> So, thanks very much for your guys' great work! >>> >>> But I found the semantic layer of wikidata is shallow, that means you >>> can only knows who are Einstein's father and children, but it can not be >>> inferred automatically from wikidata that Einstein's father is the >>> grandfather of Einstein's children. >>> >>> So my question is that: >>> >>> * Do we have a long term plan to evolve wikidata towards a >>> semantic-rich dataset? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Mingli >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l> >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- undefined
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