Re: Afghanistan War Diary as topic map in Maiana

Aki Kivelä <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xtm.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
1.11.2010 21:08, Patrick Durusau kirjoitti:
> Aki,
>
> Thanks for the work on the map and the report on the extractors!
>
> Do any of the extraction services add properties to what we would call
> subjects?

Hi Patrick

If you consider a subject something that has a subject identifier then 
almost everything given by extraction services are subjects. For 
example, keywords provided by the Alchemy web service are subjects that 
represent keywords provided by the Alchemy. This may sound a tautology, 
but I think it is important that a subject reified by an extractor is 
not even trying to pretend something more it really is.

If you consider a subject something that has a published and resolvable 
subject indicator then I have to disappoint you. I haven't really 
investigated all extracted topic maps yet but it looks like only some 
entities provided by Alchemy have well known identifiers referring 
geonames, dbpedia, freebase, yago, umbel, opencyc etc. For example, 
Alchemy entity CHINA with an extractor generated subject identifier 
http://www.alchemyapi.com/api/entity/CHINA has been labeled same as

http://dbpedia.org/resource/People's_Republic_of_China
http://mpii.de/yago/resource/People's_Republic_of_China
http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/guid.9202a8c04000641f8000000000c01763

"Labeled same as" means here that the entity topic of CHINA has been 
associated with three topics, each identified by one subject identifier 
written above, and association type is a home-grown "sameAs". A kind of 
home-grown linked data, you see. Another question is, how subject CHINA 
appears from AWD reports.

Did I manage to answer your question?

Kind Regards,
Aki Kivelä
Wandora Team
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