[open-linguistics] Wiktionary RDF-extraction with DBpedia for en and de

[Jonathan Pool]

> Word classes and
> definitions should be already included (maybe buggy but mostly). Whats
> the issue there?

Sorry, you are correct.

> we will use a finer granularity (as it is found, wiktionary uses many
> more) and therefore use a finer ontology. we think about using OLiA

Thanks for the reference. It looks as if it is not always finer in granularity. E.g., "interjection" seems to be undistinguished from "particle". But I'll look forward to learning, and perhaps following, what you adopt.

>> http://panlex.org/u
> i dont really get that page.

Just a list of the language varieties covered up to now by resources that are being consulted in the compilation of PanLex.

> we have the glottolog ontology (not
> published yet) that covers the iso 639-3 languages but extends them to
> dialects and orders them hierarchically (language families). this sounds
> promising.

That could be helpful, though I don't understand why deciding whether two documents describe the same languoid simplifies the classification problem. Thanks for the reference.
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