On 7/10/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Damned if I
wasn't thinking about this sort of thing a couple hours
ago while washing up...the vision I had was a device in the home which
would respond to queries, so one could ask, "Wikipedia, how long is
the Great Wall of China", and get an audible response within a
reasonable response time.
That is more or less the extent of the thought, and while there are a
lot of questions and issues to be resolved around it, I see no reason
it couldn't become a reality within a few years.
SemanticWiki would be a key feature in making that idea a reality.
Parsing the plain text articles can only provide very limited data for
answering such questions.
Yep, google is already doing some complex parsing now.
http://docs.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=54199&…
Couple this with goog-411 and this could happen in months really. I
hope we can move forward with semantic mediawiki also so that this
kind of innovation happens in the free software world and isn't tied
only into the google silo.
Judson
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