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IBM needs an up-to-date web-scale ontology (Blekko has it) for Watson, it used Freebase (et al) which is closing down on March 31, 2015 (largest open collaborat
by castell 12y ago
IBM needs an up-to-date web-scale ontology (Blekko has it) for Watson, it used Freebase (et al) which is closing down on March 31, 2015 (largest open collaborative knowledge base): http://www.freebase.com http://www.freebase.com , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase
Freebase was acquired by Google in 2010 and powers their internal Google Knowledge Graph. Microsoft bought Powerset (company) in 2008.
Freebase has 2,751,614,700 facts, Wikidata has 13,788,746 facts. Wikidata may import some data of Freebase, but due its stricter guidelines (notability guideline...) many facts of minor will be lost/never migrated. A Freebase dump won't age well, in a lot of cases up-to-date facts from the real world are required.
Maybe some community project can rescue the Freebase community project before it is too late?
@downvotes: ?
- nchuhoai 12y agoI totally agree, I believe many people vastly underestimate the usefulness of Freebase as a open source ontology. Starting tomorrow, there simply is no real alternative to Freebase and so many great applications are not possible any more :(
- TorKlingberg 12y agoWhat do you mean with "ontology"?
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