[Freebase-discuss] bad way to lead import data

[Tom Morris]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 4:38 PM, A A <ztera at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Data is about number of entities, not quality of the data.

That's certainly one viewpoint, although one that a lot of people
would disagree with.  Certainly if you look at information as opposed
to just data, quality becomes much more important.

> Each data is sometimes right, sometimes wrong. But if lot's of data is
> saying the same thing , you can consider you have something..

Millions of people providing incorrect information doesn't make it correct.

> Because nobody wants to fill with hand all the data a text can produce, a
> big ecosystem of programmatic module is the key to my perspective.

That sounds super cool.  Please let use know when you have it built
and working correctly.  I'd definitely use it if it was high quality,
free of charge, and liberally licensed.

I'm curious though, where are you going to find a high quality entity
database for your über powerful natural language parsing algorithms to
use?

Tom