[Developers] wordnet?

[Mark B.]

Joel and Ed,

There are UMBEL/YAGO mappings in N3 here:

http://www.umbel.org/ontology/umbel_yago_nes.tar.gz

via

http://www.umbel.org/documentation.html

Mark



On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Joel Truher <joel at truher.org> wrote:
> The YAGO approach is indeed what I had in mind, thanks for the link, I
> wasn't aware of it.
>
> To me there seem to be two steps, though: (1) mirroring the external
> resource, and (2) semantically integrating it.
>
> I agree with crism that (2) isn't worth attacking comprehensively, but
> I think there's value in (1), and (2) can proceed slowly, piecewise,
> and still be useful.
>
> But I'm a beginner.  Are there issues I should learn about with
> respect to separating the process in that way?
>
>
> Joel
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Ed Summers <ehs at pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Christopher R. Maden <crism at metaweb.com> wrote:
>>> The problem that keeps stumping[*] people who take this on is that
>>> Freebase is language-independent, while WordNet is inherently
>>> linguistic.  The English word "dog" can't just be attached to the
>>> Freebase topic for dog-the-animal; the first synset for "dog" in WordNet
>>> can be *connected* to it, but shouldn't be overlapped with it.  There
>>> are things that can be said about "dog" that are not true of "chien" in
>>> French.
>>
>> Yes, another way of looking at it is that as you traverse link between
>> pools of data on the web-of-data you will encounter semantic-drift
>> [1]. The drift between some data set will be more than others.
>>
>> I guess I just wanted to point out that the links were there if Joel
>> wanted to try using them. The YAGO folks have an interesting paper
>> that discusses how enhancing wikipedia data with linkages to wordnet
>> can prove useful.
>>
>> //Ed
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change
>> [2] http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~suchanek/publications/www2007.pdf
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