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Wow, I wish all API owners would read this. I'm always going around asking for dumps. I need them for speed & scalability reasons. It's even OK with me if your

Wow, I wish all API owners would read this. I'm always going around asking for dumps. I need them for speed & scalability reasons. It's even OK with me if your dump is in a weird format--I'll deal with it, but I'd like a dump.

lsb 17y ago
Here's a question I've been thinking about, regarding weirdly-formatted dumps and text: I'd like to use a couple of different Wiktionaries for a multi-lingual translation project, but people check the semantics of the Wiktionary page visually instead of via markup-analysis (assisted by the editing tools). Know of any attempts to get semantic information from lots of Wiktionaries' dumps?
- epi0Bauqu 17y ago
  Yeah, I've done a bit of this, and a lot more from Wikipedia. In short, it's a mess. I'd suggest messing with Global Wordnet instead: http://www.globalwordnet.org/ http://www.globalwordnet.org/, unless you've already tried that and discarded it :)
  - lsb 17y ago
    Thanks; I'll have to take a look at that
jrockway 17y ago
It's even OK with me if your dump is in a weird format You would love the financial industry. Standards? Hahahahahaha.
- icey 17y ago
  In 2003 I was working with a national bank on a project, and we needed to get data dumps from them. They told us they would be happy to provide the data in any format we requested. "Great!" we thought, and asked them to send us the data in XML since we already had a process for handling it that way. There was a moment of silence as they muted their side of the conference and when they came back, the IT manager who was heading up this project on their side goes "okay but... what is XML?". At that point I realized that bank IT is where government IT workers go when government work is too demanding.
  - jrockway 17y ago
    At that point I realized that bank IT is where government IT workers go when government work is too demanding. My experience is different. The only non-OSS programmers I've ever met with a clue work at banks.

lsb 17y ago

Here's a question I've been thinking about, regarding weirdly-formatted dumps and text: I'd like to use a couple of different Wiktionaries for a multi-lingual translation project, but people check the semantics of the Wiktionary page visually instead of via markup-analysis (assisted by the editing tools). Know of any attempts to get semantic information from lots of Wiktionaries' dumps?

epi0Bauqu 17y ago
Yeah, I've done a bit of this, and a lot more from Wikipedia. In short, it's a mess. I'd suggest messing with Global Wordnet instead: http://www.globalwordnet.org/ http://www.globalwordnet.org/, unless you've already tried that and discarded it :)
- lsb 17y ago
  Thanks; I'll have to take a look at that

jrockway 17y ago

It's even OK with me if your dump is in a weird format You would love the financial industry. Standards? Hahahahahaha.

icey 17y ago
In 2003 I was working with a national bank on a project, and we needed to get data dumps from them. They told us they would be happy to provide the data in any format we requested. "Great!" we thought, and asked them to send us the data in XML since we already had a process for handling it that way. There was a moment of silence as they muted their side of the conference and when they came back, the IT manager who was heading up this project on their side goes "okay but... what is XML?". At that point I realized that bank IT is where government IT workers go when government work is too demanding.
- jrockway 17y ago
  At that point I realized that bank IT is where government IT workers go when government work is too demanding. My experience is different. The only non-OSS programmers I've ever met with a clue work at banks.