[Developers] MQLRead Query to Replicate Search Service

[Shawn Simister]

Wow, those eMQL adapters are pretty cool. Its kinda like SPARQL 
functions for MQL. So, can anyone create an adapter in their own 
personal namespace using Acre?

Shawn

Andi Vajda wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2009, Shawn Simister wrote:
>
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>> What about using UMQL to send a batch of queries to the relevance engine?
>> Something like this? I think that would be equivalent to the what you'd get
>> from the search API.
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> Like this ? http://tinyurl.com/qsqn7q
>
> This was the "but we're working on it" part I was hinting at in my earlier 
> reply on this thread. Needless to say, this is experimental, comes without 
> any warranty, is likely to change, etc... 
> http://search.labs.freebase.com/api/service/emql?help, is a good place for 
> learning more about it.
>
> Feedback is certainly welcome !
>
> Andi..
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>> Shawn
>>
>> Tom Morris wrote:
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>> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:44 AM, James Alexander Levy
>> <jamesalexanderlevy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'd like to run several queries against the search service with a single
>> HTTP request - you know, for efficiency and all that. Because there's no way
>> to do this (right?) I'll have to use MQLRead for its query envelope, but I'm
>> not sure how to perform a read request that exactly mimics the search
>> service.
>>
>>
>> You can't do this because you don't have all the information available
>> to you that the search service uses.  In particular it uses anchor
>> text from Wikipedia articles in addition to things that you can get at
>> from MQL (names & aliases).
>>
>> If latency is your concern, have you considered posting the requests
>> asynchronously and pipelining your processing?
>>
>> Tom
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