- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:30:12 -0500
- To: Georgi Kobilarov <georgi.kobilarov@gmx.de>
- CC: Jens Lehmann <lehmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>, public-lod@w3.org, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, John Goodwin <John.Goodwin@ordnancesurvey.co.uk>
Georgi Kobilarov wrote: > Kingsley, > > >> What's the URL of the strict one? >> >> We are building a DBpedia installer for Virtuoso, so at the very least >> I >> want the users of this installer to have choice of "strict" or "loose" >> infobox extraction. >> > > Not publicly available yet. There was a buggy first version of "strict", > but we decided to no further work on it for release 3.2. > > Okay. Kingsley > Georgi > > -- > Georgi Kobilarov > Freie Universität Berlin > www.georgikobilarov.com > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kingsley Idehen [mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com] >> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 6:14 PM >> To: Jens Lehmann >> Cc: public-lod@w3.org; Semantic Web; dbpedia- >> discussion@lists.sourceforge.net; John Goodwin >> Subject: Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] DBpedia 3.2 release, including >> DBpedia Ontology and RDF links to Freebase >> >> Jens Lehmann wrote: >> >>> Hello John, >>> >>> John Goodwin wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Thanks Chris and team for all your hard work getting this done. I >>>> >> do, >> >>>> however, have a few comments regarding the OWL ontology. I think in >>>> general the use of domain and range is perhaps a bit "dubious" in >>>> >> that >> >>>> for many things I think it is overly specified. I can imagine >>>> > anyone > >>>> re-using the Dbpedia properties getting some unexpected inferences >>>> >> from >> >>>> the domain and range restrictions. Also the range restriction seem >>>> >> to be >> >>>> done as an OWL intersection so if, for example, something has a >>>> publisher x then x will be inferred to be both a Company and a >>>> >> Person >> >>>> which is probably not what you want. Personally, in all but a few >>>> >> cases, >> >>>> I'd be tempted to generalise or just remove the domain/range >>>> restrictions. Any thoughts? >>>> >>>> >>> We specified the domains and ranges as disjunctions of classes (not >>> intersection). See the W3C specification of owl:unionOf [1]. >>> >>> The domain and range axioms help to structure DBpedia and clarify >>> > the > >>> meaning of certain properties. While there is room for improvement, >>> >> it >> >>> is not an option to remove all of them. >>> >>> Currently, there are two versions of the infobox extraction: a loose >>> >> one >> >>> and a strict one. In the strict one, it is guaranteed that the data >>> complies to the ranges specified in the ontology schema. Currently, >>> >> only >> >>> the loose (probably inconsistent) one is provided. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Jens >>> >>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/#owl_unionOf >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Jens, >> >> What's the URL of the strict one? >> >> We are building a DBpedia installer for Virtuoso, so at the very least >> I >> want the users of this installer to have choice of "strict" or "loose" >> infobox extraction. >> >> -- >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Kingsley Idehen Weblog: >> > http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > >> President & CEO >> OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> -- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >> prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the >> world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Dbpedia-discussion mailing list >> Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion >> > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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