[Posted with admin permission; thanks, Phoebe.]
Freebase is a free database of the world's knowledge. It draws its
information from a variety of sources, of which Wikipedia is one of
the most important.
Next Tuesday we'll be having a user group meeting here in SF and one
of our presenters will be talking about how we mine Wikipedia for data
and extract semantic meaning from articles. There was a previous talk
on a related topic ("Mining Wikipedia") which I've posted at
http://blog.freebase.com/2008/06/10/brian-karlak-on-mining-wikipedia/
and which might also be of interest.
Powerset (
http://powerset.com/) , the semantic search engine which
searches Wikipedia and Freebase, will also be sending one of their
techs to talk about how they do what they do.
You can see the full list of speakers and presentation topics at
http://blog.freebase.com/2008/06/12/speakers-at-next-tuesdays-freebase-user…
If you'd like to attend, please RSVP at
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/760574/ so we know how much beer and
pizza to provide.
Thanks!
K.
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Kirrily Robert
skud(a)infotrope.net
http://infotrope.net