[Developers] mapping Freebase to KR systems?

[Kavitha Srinivas]

John,
    Any idea about when we can get data dumps from Freebase?  I'm  
interested in RDF dumps like Shawn, but will settle for any other  
format, if its easier.
-Kavitha

On Sep 8, 2007, at 4:09 PM, John Giannandrea wrote:

>
> Rich Morin wrote:
>> Has anyone done anything like mapping Freebase to other
>> Knowledge Representation systems?  For example, Protege
>> might be an interesting tool for exploring the Freebase
>> ontology and PowerLoom might be able to reason about
>> (subsets of) Freebase's relationships.
>
> Freebase is more of a database than an ontology.
> There is no direct mapping from our types to, say, OWL  
> representations.
> This is not to say it cant be done, just that it is not there yet.
>
> A different thing would be mapping between the topics and
> ontology/databases like Cyc, SUMO or WordNet.
> This is possible and desirable, it requires reconciliation though.
>
> However we do plan to provide an RDF export of the freebase data
> which should be compatible with some SW tools.
>
>> Speaking of which, if I wanted to download a full copy
>> of the Freebase ontology, is there a better way than
>> crawling through the domains and types?
>
> Currently you have to export all the types with MQL.
> You can also explore with a tool like
> 	http://www.mjtemplate.org/examples/schemas/
>
> We do plan to provide 'data dumps' which would include
> the schemas in some flattened form.
>
> -jg
>
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