Hello everyone,

I and some other students from the ENS de Lyon have created a query answering tool [1] based on Wikidata. Its goal is to provide an improved version of Wiri [2] with advanced natural language processing techniques. Thanks to Lydia there is a now a blog post on wikimedia.de blog to introduce it: https://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/02/23/platypus-a-speaking-interface-for-wikidata/

A side feature that may especially interest the Wikidata community is the power user's query syntax [3] that allows to do easily queries on Wikidata content. It is currently powered by WikidataQuery [4] but we should switch to our own query engine [5] in a few days.

Thomas (User:Tpt)

[1] http://askplatyp.us
[2] https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnus-toolserver/thetalkpage
[3] https://projetpp.github.io/demo.html#power-user-input
[4] https://wdq.wmflabs.org
[5] https://github.com/ProjetPP/WikibaseEntityStore