[Developers] cubed: an experiment for collection queries

[Iain Sproat]

Awesome!  And the MQL created is much cleaner than the query generated
by the views in the client (no sorting/timestamp padding).

Iain

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:33 AM, David Huynh <david at metaweb.com> wrote:
> Glad you like it! I haven't decided how to score base and user types
> relative to common types yet, so that's why that community garden type
> doesn't show up. What else have you tried that didn't work?
>
> David
>
> Paul Mackay wrote:
>> That's pretty neat!
>>
>> What's the scope of queries it should be able to resolve? I tried
>> "community gardens vancouver" which relates to the Local Food base I'm
>> working on, but it just shows a box with "No suggested matches". Any
>> ideas why?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> paul
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 5:13 PM, David Huynh <david at metaweb.com
>> <mailto:david at metaweb.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     If you're looking for a collection of topics, say, drama films
>>     starring
>>     Nicole Kidman, it takes a bit of mental work to translate that to
>>     a MQL
>>     query. Wouldn't it be nice if that can be automated? Here's an
>>     experiment that does just that
>>
>>
>>      http://www.freebase.com/labs/cubed/?q=nicole%20kidman%20drama%20films
>>
>>     This is like a power version of the freebase suggest widget that can
>>     resolve "collection queries".
>>
>>     Compare this example
>>        http://tinyurl.com/yevtv3v (female+african+american+politicians)
>>     with Google Squared results
>>
>>     http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=female+african+american+politicians
>>
>>     or this example
>>
>>     http://www.freebase.com/labs/cubed/?q=republican%20presidents%27%20children%27s%20schools
>>     with
>>
>>     http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=republican+presidents%27+children%27s+schools
>>
>>     The goal is to make this widget embeddable in any app, such as
>>     this one
>>     for exporting collections as TSV
>>
>>        http://collection-exporter.freebaseapps.com/
>>
>>     Please consider this "alpha" only, not yet production worthy. But
>>     let me
>>     know if you have any potential use for it! Comments, feedback very
>>     much
>>     appreciated!
>>
>>     David
>>
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