Explore the GSoC2013 projects with DBpedia Spotlight

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1. List your interests: (try 'Cloud computing' or 'Java')


2. Care to expand that a bit? We have a few suggestions.

List your interests above, and we'll find related concepts.

3. Explore.

No results yet. Please tell us what are your interests.

4. Wanna know how this has been done?

If you are curious about how we implemented this app, feel free to check our source code.

  1. Type-ahead suggestion is done via CORS-enabled Ajax queries to DBpedia Lookup. This API takes in some phrase and searches the DBpedia knowledge base to find possible meanings for this phrase. Once you pick one of those meanings, we store its unique identifier (URI) from DBpedia. The client side javascript uses AutoSuggest jQuery Plugin by Drew Wilson.
  2. Suggestion of related concepts is done via DBpedia's wikiPageLinks and using DBpedia Spotlight's notion of resource relatedness. For each of the URIs you have selected in step 1, we find all concepts linked to them via DBpedia properties. We add to that any other concepts that are "topically similar" according to DBpedia Spotlight. The wikiPageLinks dataset was loaded into a Virtuoso triple store, in order to provide the "expand" functionality.
  3. Retrieval and ranking is done via queries over annotated projects stored in an elasticsearch server. Projects were annotated with DBpedia Spotlight's Web Service.
  4. Results are displayed by the DataTables jQuery plugin.

DBpedia and DBpedia Spotlight has been selected as an organization for GSoC2013. If you have project ideas involving DBpedia or DBpedia Spotlight, please let us know, for example through our discussion list at SourceForge.net.