[Developers] freebase-suggest modification

Faye Li faye at metaweb.com
Thu May 15 19:41:21 UTC 2008


Freebase suggest has a filter option (see fbs.filter) for filtering 
items out of the result list. That sounds like the most promising place 
to start digging. I'm hoping someone who has worked directly with that 
area can chime in.

-- Faye


Zodiac Seven wrote:
> Yes, that sounds like what I need, where should i start modifying 
> freebase suggest to do this?
>
> On 5/16/08, *Faye Li* <faye at metaweb.com <mailto:faye at metaweb.com>> wrote:
>
>     Since many articles are entered/edited by the Freebase community
>     and not
>     imported from Wikipedia, Wikipedia keys are a better indicator for
>     identifying those that are. Sounds like the query you want is
>     asking for
>     only things that have wiki keys.
>
>     -- Faye
>
>
>     Zodiac Seven wrote:
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > Would there be a way to tweak freebase suggest to only show topics
>     > which exist in wikipedia - I guess I have to not get results which
>     > have article:null? I can't find the MQL query which it uses
>     anywhere...
>     >
>     > On 5/15/08, *Brian Karlak* <zenkat at metaweb.com
>     <mailto:zenkat at metaweb.com>
>
>     > <mailto:zenkat at metaweb.com <mailto:zenkat at metaweb.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >     The wikipedia title and ID are stored as the /wikipedia/en and
>     >     /wikipedia/en_id keys on the topic, and can be retrieved by the
>     >     following MQL:
>     >
>     >       {
>     >         "a:key" : [
>     >           {
>     >             "namespace" : "/wikipedia/en",
>     >             "value" : null
>     >           }
>     >         ],
>     >         "b:key" : {
>     >           "namespace" : "/wikipedia/en_id",
>     >           "value" : null
>     >         },
>     >         "guid" : "#9202a8c04000641f800000000009216a"
>     >       }
>     >
>     >     Currently, all valid titles and redirects for an article are
>     >     stored in /wikipedia/en.  The /wikipedia/en_id key, however,
>     >     should point to the most recent wikipedia ID for the topic.  You
>     >     can access the wikipedia page with this ID using the
>     following URL:
>     >
>     >     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=82976
>     >
>     >     Brian
>     >
>     >     On May 15, 2008, at 4:11 AM, Zodiac Seven wrote:
>     >
>     >>     Okay, i guess i will make the results var global and access it
>     >>     from the callback.
>     >>
>     >>     Is there a freebase api to get the name of the article in
>     wikipedia?
>     >>     so if I have the id as "/en/taj_mahal" and the guid as
>     >>     "#9202a8c04000641f800000000009216a", name as "Taj Mahal"
>     >>     I guess there must be a way to find out the wikipedia article
>     >>     name which is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_mahal
>     >>
>     >>     On 5/15/08, *Dae Park* <daepark at metaweb.com
>     <mailto:daepark at metaweb.com>
>
>     >>     <mailto:daepark at metaweb.com <mailto:daepark at metaweb.com>>>
>     wrote:
>     >>
>     >>         I am unaware of any methods invoking something cross domain
>     >>         synchronously. Even if it's possible, I doubt you want the
>     >>         browser to
>     >>         be "blocked" while you are waiting for your response.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>         -dae
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>         On May 14, 2008, at 8:25 AM, Zodiac Seven wrote:
>     >>
>     >>         > Dae,
>     >>         >
>     >>         > $.ajax is using a async callback too. Isn't there an
>     >>         approach which
>     >>         > will
>     >>         > work synchronously like XmlHttpRequest?
>     >>         >
>     >>         > On 5/14/08, Dae Park <daepark at metaweb.com
>     <mailto:daepark at metaweb.com>
>
>     >>         <mailto:daepark at metaweb.com
>     <mailto:daepark at metaweb.com>>> wrote:
>     >>         >>
>     >>         >> You should be able to $.ajax with "jsonp" as the
>     dataType to
>     >>         >> accomplish what you want.
>     >>         >>
>     >>         >> -dae
>     >>         >>
>     >>         >>
>     >>         >>
>     >>         >> On May 13, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Zodiac Seven wrote:
>     >>         >>
>     >>         >>> This is more of a javascript question then a
>     freebase one but
>     >>         >>> hoping someone here can help.
>     >>         >>>
>     >>         >>> I am trying to make a call to a webservice in
>     freebase suggest
>     >>         >>> (http://code.google.com/p/freebase-suggest/)
>     >>         >>> This means I call a web service for every
>     suggestion and
>     >>         depending
>     >>         >>> on that i display the suggestion.
>     >>         >>>
>     >>         >>> freebase.suggest.js Line 528.
>     >>         >>>
>     >>         >>> p.list_receive = function(input, txt, o)
>     >>         {//fb.log("list_receive",
>     >>         >>> input, query, o);
>     >>         >>> // handle errors
>     >>         >>> if (o.status !== '200 OK') {
>     >>         >>> fb.error("list_receive", o.code, o.messages, o);
>     >>         >>> return;
>     >>         >>> }
>     >>         >>> ...
>     >>         >>> var url = 'http://somesite/webservice?
>     >>         >>> callback=mycheckfunction&term=' + suggestKeyWord;
>     >>         >>>
>     >>         >>> // Create a script tag, set its src attribute and
>     add it
>     >>         to the
>     >>         >>> document
>     >>         >>> // This triggers the HTTP request and submits the query
>     >>         >>> var script = document.createElement("script");
>     >>         >>> script.src = url;
>     >>         >>> document.body.appendChild(script);
>     >>         >>> ...
>     >>         >>> // further logic to add/remove the item
>     >>         >>>
>     >>         >>> My problem is that i'm using
>     >>         document.createElement("script" and
>     >>         >>> since that is async i have no idea of knowing the
>     response
>     >>         of my
>     >>         >>> web service.
>     >>         >>> I could move the further logic into the callback but is
>     >>         there a
>     >>         >>> 'synchronous' way to wait until i get a response
>     from my web
>     >>         >>> service.
>     >>         >>> I can't use xmlHttpRequest because of the cross domain
>     >>         restriction.
>     >>         >>>
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