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Tom Morris wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Somehow I've managed to completely overlook the Reconciliation service
until just now.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000007beed56">http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000007beed56</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.freebase.com/2008/05/13/new-api-service-reconciliation/">http://blog.freebase.com/2008/05/13/new-api-service-reconciliation/</a>
Is anyone using it? Any results to report? Tips to make it work better?
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I've experimented with that service in the past and ,like you, I found
it lacking in several ways. Luckily, there's <a
href="http://mqlx.com/reconciliation/">a new and much improved
reconciliation service</a> in early development right now. It lets you
add a lot more constraints which gives much better results than the old
one.<br>
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For example, entering the following query into the new service should
give you what you're looking for:<br>
<tt><br>
<span class="Apple-style-span"
style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-monospace; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">{<br>
"/type/object/name":"GM", <br>
"/type/object/type":"/business/company"<br>
}</span></tt><br>
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<pre wrap="">Right now I'm using my own query against name (and aliases) and then
fetching the associated Wikipedia article for some additional analysis
to help disambiguate and punting if I'm not extremely confident of a
match. Anyone have any other successful strategies or tips that
they're willing to share?
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I've generated some good results by filtering my reconciliation results
against a hand-crafted black-list of incompatible types. So for
example, if you're reconciling a list of companies, you know you can
throw out any results that are typed as People, Locations, Buildings,
etc. because they can't possibly be what you're looking for. Of course,
you're never going to be able to come up with an exhaustive list of all
the incompatible types but as long as you get the major ones you should
see a noticeable improvement in the quality of your results.<br>
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On a related note, has there been any discussion of generalizing and
opening up the end user work queues (á là the voting queue or the
Typewriter queues) to allow tasks to be contributed or is the thought
that each domain/application will have to replicate this?
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I know that a couple of the Metaweb folks have mentioned this idea
before. I haven't seen a formal feature request in JIRA but I know that
the developers who built Typewriter have created another project
called the <a
href="http://acre.freebase.com/#app=/user/dfhuynh/task-queue-lib">Task
Queue Library</a> which seems to be what you're describing. There are
also two derivative projects called <a
href="http://genderizer.dfhuynh.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/">Genderizer</a>
and <a
href="http://geographer.stefanomazzocchi.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/">Geographer</a>
which seem to be built on the same framework as Typewriter.<br>
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Shawn<br>
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