[Developers] Developers Digest, Vol 19, Issue 2
qi li
qililaimend at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 17:25:47 UTC 2008
Hi All,
Thanks for all of responds and great helps.
I went through the search API. It is exactly what I want. But I still
confused with some arguments， "type"
What does this argument of "type" mean? And how to use it? What does
"statistically incompatible type" and "statistically compatible type" mean?
I didn't find examples in this page. I try some queries, but there is no
difference.
http://www.freebase.com/api/service/search?query=Madonna&limit=1&type=/people/person&strict=true
http://www.freebase.com/api/service/search?query=Madonna&limit=1&type=/people/person&strict=false
Best,
Qi
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> 1. Re: different search results from freebase & api (Eynard, Davide)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:29:46 +0000
> From: "Eynard, Davide" <davide.eynard at hp.com>
> Subject: Re: [Developers] different search results from freebase & api
> To: "For discussions about MQL, Freebase API and apps built on
> Freebase" <developers at freebase.com>
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> Hi!
>
> Yes, actually searching for "Louise Ciccone Ritchie" via the Web interface
> does a much fuzzier search which, as far as I know, also takes into account
> "also known as" properties and substrings instead of exact matches.
>
> In this particular case the name is a substring of an alias of a common
> topic,
> so you can find the original topic id and name with a query like the
> following
> one:
>
> {
> "alias~=" : "Louise Ciccone Ritchie",
> "id" : null,
> "name" : null,
> "type" : "/common/topic"
> }
>
> Hope the solution is not too trivial, let me know if you need something
> more
> general.
>
> Cheers,
>
> da
>
> From: developers-bounces at freebase.com [mailto:
> developers-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of qi li
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:07 PM
> To: crism at metaweb.com; developers at freebase.com
> Subject: [Developers] different search results from freebase & api
>
> Dear All,
>
> When I played with freebase data and API, I found I could find search
> results when I used search query of "Louise Ciccone Ritchie" on web page (
> http://www.freebase.com/search?limit=30&start=0&query=Louise+Ciccone+Ritchie).
> But I failed at any results when I used MQL query (
> http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?queries={%22item%22:{%22query%22:{%22name%22:%22Louise%20Ciccone%20Ritchie%22,%22type%22:[]}}}
> <
> http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?queries=%7b%22item%22:%7b%22query%22:%7b%22name%22:%22Louise%20Ciccone%20Ritchie%22,%22type%22:%5b%5d%7d%7d%7d
> >)
>
> Could anybody tell me the "secret"? I didn't correctly write MQL query or
> Mediapedia does more work in "Fuzzy" search part, that is, it provides some
> methods to directly map Louise Ciccone Ritchie to Madonna?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Best,
> --
> Qi Li
> School of Information Science
> University of Pittsburgh
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> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:26:01 -0700
> From: Faye Harris <faye at metaweb.com>
> Subject: Re: [Developers] different search results from freebase & api
> To: "For discussions about MQL, Freebase API and apps built on
> Freebase" <developers at freebase.com>
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> Hi Qi,
>
> Search does more than querying topic names. Among other things, it looks
> for matches to your query in topic aliases, descriptions, and Wikipedia
> links. In this case, it found a topic ("Madonna") that has an alias of
> "Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie".
>
> Your MQL query, on the other hand, asks for things with "Louise Ciccone
> Ritchie" as its name and name only. As you've found out, there is no
> such thing in Freebase.
>
> You can learn more about the search API at:
> http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ad84c9
>
> A very good resource for learning about MQL can be found at:
> http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000544e13e
>
> -- Faye
>
>
> qi li wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > When I played with freebase data and API, I found I could find search
> > results when I used search query of "Louise Ciccone Ritchie" on web
> > page
> > (
> http://www.freebase.com/search?limit=30&start=0&query=Louise+Ciccone+Ritchie
> > <
> http://www.freebase.com/search?limit=30&start=0&query=Louise+Ciccone+Ritchie
> >).
> > But I failed at any results when I used MQL query
> > (
> http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?queries={%22item%22:{%22query%22:{%22name%22:%22Louise%20Ciccone%20Ritchie%22,%22type%22:[]}}}
> > <
> http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?queries=%7B%22item%22:%7B%22query%22:%7B%22name%22:%22Louise%20Ciccone%20Ritchie%22,%22type%22:%5B%5D%7D%7D%7D
> >)
> >
> > Could anybody tell me the "secret"? I didn't correctly write MQL query
> > or Mediapedia does more work in "Fuzzy" search part, that is, it
> > provides some methods to directly map Louise Ciccone Ritchie to Madonna?
> >
> > Thank you very much!
> >
> > Best,
> > --
> > Qi Li
> > School of Information Science
> > University of Pittsburgh
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
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> > Developers at freebase.com
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> >
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:52:48 -0700
> From: Tim Kientzle <tim at metaweb.com>
> Subject: Re: [Developers] different search results from freebase & api
> To: "For discussions about MQL, Freebase API and apps built on
> Freebase" <developers at freebase.com>
> Message-ID: <D52DD6BC-D0DB-4FFE-83EA-24447BDBB929 at metaweb.com>
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> delsp=yes
>
> You might also try using the "search API", which uses a ranking engine
> to generate "likely" matches for a piece of text. It's documented here:
>
> http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ad84c9
>
> This is very different from mqlread: mqlread is best when your
> constraints have structure (e.g., you're looking for actors who were
> born in a certain place) and when you want to get all possible
> matches. In contrast, search is best when you're dealing with
> informal text entry (Freebase.com uses the search API for autocomplete
> and basic search functionality) and you only want the "best" matches.
>
> Tim Kientzle
>
>
> On Sep 2, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Eynard, Davide wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Yes, actually searching for "Louise Ciccone Ritchie" via the Web
> > interface
> > does a much fuzzier search which, as far as I know, also takes into
> > account
> > ?also known as? properties and substrings instead of exact matches.
> >
> > In this particular case the name is a substring of an alias of a
> > common topic,
> > so you can find the original topic id and name with a query like the
> > following
> > one:
> >
> > {
> > "alias~=" : "Louise Ciccone Ritchie",
> > "id" : null,
> > "name" : null,
> > "type" : "/common/topic"
> > }
> >
> > Hope the solution is not too trivial, let me know if you need
> > something more
> > general.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > da
> >
> > From: developers-bounces at freebase.com [mailto:
> developers-bounces at freebase.com
> > ] On Behalf Of qi li
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:07 PM
> > To: crism at metaweb.com; developers at freebase.com
> > Subject: [Developers] different search results from freebase & api
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > When I played with freebase data and API, I found I could find
> > search results when I used search query of "Louise Ciccone Ritchie"
> > on web page (
> http://www.freebase.com/search?limit=30&start=0&query=Louise+Ciccone+Ritchie
> > ). But I failed at any results when I used MQL query (
> http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?queries=
> > {%22item%22:{%22query%22:{%22name%22:%22Louise%20Ciccone%20Ritchie
> > %22,%22type%22:[]}}})
> >
> > Could anybody tell me the "secret"? I didn't correctly write MQL
> > query or Mediapedia does more work in "Fuzzy" search part, that is,
> > it provides some methods to directly map Louise Ciccone Ritchie to
> > Madonna?
> >
> > Thank you very much!
> >
> > Best,
> > --
> > Qi Li
> > School of Information Science
> > University of Pittsburgh
> > _______________________________________________
> > Developers mailing list
> > Developers at freebase.com
> > http://lists.freebase.com/mailman/listinfo/developers
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:28:51 -0700
> From: Warren Harris <warren at metaweb.com>
> Subject: Re: [Developers] different search results from freebase & api
> To: "For discussions about MQL, Freebase API and apps built on
> Freebase" <developers at freebase.com>
> Message-ID: <1AE275B4-8A57-45CF-84FC-EC90DCFF027C at metaweb.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>
> On Sep 2, 2008, at 5:07 PM, qi li wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > When I played with freebase data and API, I found I could find
> > search results when I used search query of "Louise Ciccone Ritchie"
> > on web page (
> http://www.freebase.com/search?limit=30&start=0&query=Louise+Ciccone+Ritchie
> > ). But I failed at any results when I used MQL query (
> http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?queries=
> > {%22item%22:{%22query%22:{%22name%22:%22Louise%20Ciccone%20Ritchie
> > %22,%22type%22:[]}}})
> >
> > Could anybody tell me the "secret"? I didn't correctly write MQL
> > query or Mediapedia does more work in "Fuzzy" search part, that is,
> > it provides some methods to directly map Louise Ciccone Ritchie to
> > Madonna?
>
> Since names like "Ciccone" appear in the /common/topic/alias property,
> you could do a query like this:
>
> http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?queries={%22item%22:
> {%22query%22:{%22name%22:null,%22/common/topic/alias~=%22:%22Ciccone
> %22,%22type%22:[]}}}
>
> However, it sounds like you're interested in general search with mql
> results, you can use this api instead:
>
> http://www.freebase.com/api/service/search?query=Ciccone&limit=1
>
> See http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ad84c9
> for more info.
>
> Warren
>
> >
> >
> > Thank you very much!
> >
> > Best,
> > --
> > Qi Li
> > School of Information Science
> > University of Pittsburgh
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Developers at freebase.com
> > http://lists.freebase.com/mailman/listinfo/developers
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Qi Li
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