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Interlinking the BBC and DBPedia — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:17:00 +0000

[...] Data community comes from Berlin student Christian Becker, who provides us with information about BBC Interlinking with DBPedia: … commissioned to create links between DBpedia and an internal BBC vocabulary, which enable [...]

By: Christian Becker

Christian Becker — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:47:00 +0000

Ah, missed that one My guess is that this works very well for episodes of series, songs from albums etc. that often don’t have individual Wikipedia articles and hence no DBpedia equivalent resources.
But we’ll definitely try this out in the next iteration

By: Yves

Yves — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:39:00 +0000

No, it doesn’t have to. For example, you may index “Both Simple Exercice”, to take back the example in the ldow article, instead of “Both” and “Simple Exercice”. In that case, Both is an artist, and Simple Exercice one of its records. You may also index “Both artist” (rdfs:label of Both and of mo:MusicArtist), etc.
All that gives more clue for finding a particular resource.

By: Christian Becker

Christian Becker — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:30:00 +0000

Hi Yves,
Lucene indexes labels and article categories/templates. We use the labels to search; and the latter are restricted according to a manually determined list depending on the dataset (like in your algorithm) as well as to the automatically determined class equivalents (see the “Mary” example).
What are your criteria for saying that a resource is adjacent – does it have to share a category?
Sorry there wasn’t much time to meet up, we were sort of jetlagging and rushing to do some sightseeing

By: Yves

Yves — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:10:00 +0000

Awesome!!
I am so sorry to not have been able to make it last week, looks like it was two great days
Wrt. to interlinking algorithm – do you use lucene to only index on literals? Is it working when two things have the same name?

I suggested to Georgi some time ago that a more robust and general algorithm could perhaps index on adjacent literals (eg. literals that are a resource away). This would sort of like implement a light version of the algorithm i presented at ldow: it would give one more clue for disambiguating things that have the same name. If it still gives poor results, you can index on three adjacent literals, etc.