For those interested this type of text synthesis, it can be done by
using finite-state automata and transducers (FST's). The simplest way
to make them is by cross-compiling into Lua from some other known
form.
John
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Denny Vrandečić
<denny.vrandecic(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
For now, we have no plans for Wikidata to create
articles. This would,
in my opinion, meddle too much with the autonomy of the Wikipedia
language projects.
What will be possible is to facilitate the creation of such bots, as
some data that might be used for the article might be taken from and
maintained in Wikidata, and the creation of templates that use data
from Wikidata.
Wikidata currently has no plans for creating text using natural
language generation techniques. We would love for someone else to do
this kind of awesome on top of Wikidata.
I hope this helps,
Denny
2012/10/18 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.rs>rs>:
On 18/10/12 09:25, Steven Walling wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Nikola Smolenski<smolensk(a)eunet.rs>
wrote:
The need for such bots should cease after Wikidata is fully deployed. I
suggest to interested programmers that they should direct their effort
there.
Why is that the case?
I didn't understand the scope of Wikidata to include actual creation
of articles that don't exist. Only to provide data about topics
across projects. Sure, that might be extremely helpful to someone with a
bot to populate species articles, but I'm skeptical that Wikidata would
or should be creating millions of articles about such things. If you
consider something even slightly more controversial than species, such as
schools, many projects would not welcome a third party mass-creating pages
about a topic that is described in Wikidata.
Wikidata won't need to create articles. Rather, if you are trying to see a
page without an article, Wikipedia will check if an item with appropriate
name exists in Wikidata and generate the article on the fly if Wikipedia has
a local article template for this type of article.
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