Re: wordnet links in DBpedia

Hi Georgi,

Thanks for the clarification. Sounds like DBpedia's use of the synsets is
completely consistent with the proposed opencyc:synsetDenotes approach. This
should be reflected in the next release of OpenCyc.

David

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Georgi Kobilarov
<georgi.kobilarov@gmx.de>wrote:

>  Hi David,
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>
> the links have been produced by manually mapping Wikipedia infoboxes to
> Wordnet synsets. But these links are not maintained anymore (we now have the
> Dbpedia ontology for that purpose).
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> Regarding the property wordnet_type: as you say, the Wordnet synset denotes
> a class of which Nokia is an instance of.
>
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>
> Best,
>
> Georgi
>
>
>
> --
>
> Georgi Kobilarov
>
> Freie Universität Berlin
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> www.georgikobilarov.com
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>
>
> *From:* public-lod-request@w3.org [mailto:public-lod-request@w3.org] *On
> Behalf Of *David Baxter
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:14 PM
> *To:* public-lod@w3.org
> *Cc:* blake@cyc.com
> *Subject:* wordnet links in DBpedia
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just found an example of links from DBpedia to WordNet synsets that
> appears to use synsets as proxies for the "real-world" concepts they denote:
>
> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Nokia
>   http://dbpedia.org/property/wordnet_type
>   http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-company-noun-1
>
> Can anyone tell me
>
>  1. How these triples are produced?
>  2. How <http://dbpedia.org/property/wordnet_type> is to be interpreted?
>
> Looks like this might be relevant to the proposed opencyc:synsetDenotes
> property.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Baxter
>