The dbpedia project started by AKSW (together with Chris Bizer from FU Berlin and OpenLink Software) is getting increasingly popular. No wonder, since the over 10 Mio. RDF triples extracted from the English Wikipedia allow the astonishing answering of previously hard-to-answer questions. Who for example knows what connects Leipzig with Innsbruck?
Interesting articles about dbpedia:
Did You Blink? The Structured Web Just Arrived - Michael K. Bergman (AI³)
Different Approaches to the Semantic Web - Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media)
Integrating Wikipedia and SW - Ivan Herman (W3C)
Querying Wikipedia like a Database - Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons)
Interview with Sören Auer (Semantic Web School)
April 17, 2007 - 3:25 am
I was actually pretty excited to find out about dbpedia. I’ve been wondering about what it would be like to enter a chatterbot into the Loebner competition that had the ability to parse simple questions and use Wikipedia to answer them. Or pull out a few random nodes from Wikipedia in order to introduce novel conversation. The possibilities with a knowledgebase like that are endless.
My gushing about dbpedia: http://gokmop.blogspot.com/2007/04/dbpediaorg-great-semantic-web-resource.html