alexander

alexander: Arguments and argument mapping

2008-06-22T00:47:15.0000Z

How are you two doing with arguments and argument mapping on Freebase? I'm also interested in argument mapping with Freebase and how it would compare to Debategraph (http://debategraph.org/)

alexander: tempattr3 and ZX Spectrum games

2008-04-28T19:53:21.0000Z

Hi Phil. The ZX Spectrum games I added were part of a broad set of data taken from Wikipedia Infoboxes. We'll be regularly loading this data as Wikipedia grows, so any expansion in ZX Spectrum game data there will be reflected here too. That said, I'm sure that Wikipedia is not as complete as worldofspectrum.org -- so it would be really great to load data from there too, assuming the license is compatible. Let me know if you need any help!

alexander: tempattr3 and ZX Spectrum games

2008-04-27T14:10:47.0005Z

Hiya.

Would I be correct in thinking the tempattr3 user is somehow related to you? If not, if you could point me in the right diretction that would be much appreciated, and apologies for the interruption.

I notice that tempattr3 has recently added a significant number of games as being published for the ZX Spectrum, and was just wondering if you had any long term plans in this direction; I have a hope/goal of using the World of Spectrum <http://www.worldofspectrum.org/> dataset as a basis of some data to upload to Freebase (although I'll freely admit this isn't progressing very fast at the moment :-( )

Cheers,

Phil

periodic wikipedia topic load: periodic update

2007-10-18T16:13:33.0012Z

way to go Al! you must've used the data from the in-house mirror since i don't see a newer enwiki data dump from wikipedia. glad it worked.

alexander: Arguments and argument mapping

2007-07-03T21:22:32.0045Z

Hi Alexander,

I see you have the Types 'Argument' and 'Debate'. You might be interested that I'm exploring the use of Freebase for argument mapping - setting out some area of debate as a series of assertions with connectives ('supports', conflicts with', etc) between them. Current context is the global warming debate. My modelling of this with Freebases Types and Topics is very fluid just now (I just started today!), but do let me know if you are interested in discussing this. See robertm's Types 'Assertion', 'Assertion link' and 'Link type'.

Cheers,
Robert

png thumbnails fail to generate: good catch

2007-06-20T22:00:07.0005Z

we'll take a look at it.

Word: Lexeme help

2007-05-02T16:58:58.0012Z

My understanding of morphology and complex, or "learned," linguistics is a bit weak, so help me out here. I understand the lexeme "shit" to be the Verb with various participles shits, shat, shitting, right? But then, what is it when you've got a word that branches out to other word classes? That's not technically a lexeme... or is it? Shit is also a noun and an adjective, so in your Word Type construct do they each get their own page?

Dog can also be a verb, as in "Quit dogging me," which would imply that we add the Lexeme type to the word, but as far as I can tell you've got the Part of Speech property set to allow only one.

I guess what I'm saying is, I like that you've created a structure that's not a dictionary- it links to other forms to give each tense its own space. But how do you get to the top of the tree to handle words that have multiple definitions.

And, more as a curiosity, what are the symantics when you start talking about parts of speech in such a way so that I don't have to use metaphors and redundant sentences to talk about it?