Hi, Markus,

It is a very common and simple QA scenario. Here is translation of the related dialogue:

殷西: @果壳娘 美国的国家元首是谁
yinxi:  @gktan Who is the presendent of U.S.A.
果壳娘: @殷西 贝拉克·奥巴马
gktan:  @yinxi Barack Obama
瓦克星: @果壳娘 莎士比亚的出生地在哪里?
wahlque: @gktan Where did Shakespeare born?
果壳娘: @瓦克星 埃文河畔斯特拉特福
gktan: @wahlque Stratford-upon-Avon
......


On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Markus Krötzsch <markus@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
On 07/08/13 15:40, Mingli Yuan wrote:
Also, something similar to Magnus' Wiri, here is a bot developed by us
on sina weibo (a twitter-like microblogging provider in China)

* http://weibo.com/n/%E6%9E%9C%E5%A3%B3%E5%A8%98

We use dataset from wikidata with some dirty hacks. It is only a
several-days quick work.

Sounds exciting (and we always like to learn about uses of the data), but could you give a short description in English what is happening there? The above link takes me to a Chinese registration form only ;-)

Markus


We really very excited about the availability of such big dataset. The
potential of Wikipedia and Wikidata is unlimited!

Long live the free knowledge!

Regards,
Mingli




On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske@googlemail.com <mailto:magnusmanske@googlemail.com>> wrote:




    On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Mingli Yuan <mingli.yuan@gmail.com
    <mailto:mingli.yuan@gmail.com>> wrote:

        Very cool, Magnus!

        Does it do real query on wikidata? or it is only a UI thing?

    It does use live wikidata. "Reasoning" is hacked with a few
    hardcoded regular expressions ;-)

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