Hi Tom, all,
This is now, finally, available: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archi...
Yes.
I'm going to assume that the lack of answer to this question over the last four months, the lack of updates on the project, and the fact no one is even bothering to respond to issues means that this project is dead and abandoned. That's pretty sad. For an internship, it sounds like a cool project and a decent result. As an actual serious attempt to make productive use of the Freebase data, it's a weak, half-hearted effort by Google.
You have a very fair point and I apologize for our silence. Thomas P.-T. was working on this full-time during his internship, all other project members based on Google's famous-infamous (1)20% time agreement. Not as an excuse, but as an explanation. I have started triaging, assigning, and working on issues yesterday, and plan to do more work in the coming days.
Is there any interest in the Wikidata community for making use of the Freebase data now that Google has abandoned their effort, or is there too much negative sentiment against it to make it worth the effort?
Please see Marco Fossati's email and my explanations from above.
p.s. I'm surprised that none of the stuff mentioned below is addressed in the paper. Was it already submitted by the beginning of October?
This is the fact indeed, it was initially submitted to the WWW Research Track (http://www2016.ca/calls-for-papers/call-for-research-papers.html) and then re-routed to the Industry Track.
Cheers, Tom