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posted by Eduardo Favaretto on June 8, 2008 at 08:53 PM |
True Knowledge: semantic search for facts
True Knowledge is an Internet search company based in Cambridge, England. It is building its own knowledge base, importing data from sources (like Wikipedia) and encourage their user base to contribute with facts and add new knowledge in a more structured manner
A simple way of thinking about this technology: "a website where you can ask questions about any subject and get a direct response".
 TheTrue Knowledge system is a database capable of holding any human factual knowledge in a form that both, computers and humans, can understand. It models the universe as a vast collection of "entities" and "facts" about those entities.
An entity can be anything at all, for example: Albert Einstein, the color blue, Germany, a specific length of time.
A fact is a relationship between entities, such as: "Albert Einstein was born in Germany".
The technology is designed to allow anyone on the Internet to add new knowledge to the system and this knowledge is then instantly available for the rest of the planet to use. It sounds complicated and maybe provide no assistance for a "normal user" who just wants a good search experience: get in, get info, get out.
I have received an invitation to test the service [beta version with restricted accesss only to invited users]. After login, I typed in "Who is Christopher Columbus?" and I got an immediate answer, as follows:
It was great to see the message: "We don´t have an identifying image of this person. Add one."
I loved to find the possibility to include a picture / photo [and contribute with my own knowlegment] regarding "Christopher Columbus" - such as the Wikipedia service.
This way, I uploaded a Christopher Columbus photo and instantaneously it was there, ready to be viewed for other users, as follows:
Congratulations to True Knowledge team and its approach to building public knowledge bases - there is a hard work to improve, especially related to the quality answers and also user experience. |
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