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There is an open source project extracting data, but I forget what it is called. Freebase is doing it commercially (they maintain a separate database, but I bel
by paulgb 17y ago
There is an open source project extracting data, but I forget what it is called. Freebase is doing it commercially (they maintain a separate database, but I believe they have import data from wikipedia too). They provide an API and (IIRC) a data dump, but with a more restrictive license than Wikipedia itself has (again, IIRC).
- babyshake 17y agoFreebase is mostly focused on creating and curating a very clean programmatic version of Wikipedia, but it is definitely not computational in a way comparable to Wolfram Alpha.
- paulgb 17y agoHow so? I always assumed Wolfram Alpha was an NLP and data presentation layer on top of a Freebase-like database. Freebase doesn't have that extra layer, but structured data is surely part of the battle.