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DBpedia-Cyc linkage
October 3, 2007The commonsense knowledge base Cyc or OpenCyc (when compared to DBpedia) seems to follow a rather top-down approach – first more abstract concepts and entities are represented and later Cyc started to include also more domain knowledge. This seems to be reasonable, since domain knowledge changes faster and there … read more -
flickr photo collection links added to DBpedia
September 11, 2007Christian Becker (Freie Universität Berlin) has implemented a wrapper around flickr which generates photo collections depicting DBpedia concepts. See flickr wrappr for details. We have interlinked all DBpedia concepts with the corresponding photo collections. You can now use any Semantic Web browser to navigate from a DBpedia concept to flickr photos depicting … read more -
DBpedia 2.0 released
September 5, 2007After quite some work into improving the DBpedia information extraction framework, we have released a new version of the DBpedia dataset today. The renewed DBpedia dataset describes 1,950,000 “things”, including at least 80,000 persons, 70,000 places, 35,000 music albums, 12,000 films. It contains 657,000 links to images, 1,600,000 links … read more -
Second Release of the DBpedia Relationship Finder
July 31, 2007The DBpedia Relationship Finder allows you to explore the DBpedia infobox dataset in order to find out which relations exist between two things. It can answer questions like “How are Leipzig and the Semantic Web related?“. The new version includes, amongst other changes, better algorithms and the possibility to … read more -
New DBpedia Live Debug-Interface released.
July 20, 2007The debug interface allows you to run the current version of the DBpedia extraction code against the live version of Wikipedia. Just enter a page Id like ‘Berlin’ and check what the current code extracts. Please use the debug interface to check if a bug still accures with the … read more
