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Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning

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Re: Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning

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This seems almost completely useless. I tried ten questions, and only one was answered, incorrectly (Moby Dick question misunderstood, answered as "novel by Herman Melville"). I think even Ask Jeeves back in the 90s had better performance than this. Questions tried: how many lines of resolution are there in an ntsc television signal? what is the melting point of tin/lead eutetic solder? what species of whale was moby…

"This seems almost completely useless" - seems pretty harsh. Someone making a cool project, open sourcing it, and documenting it really well is something that should be praised. Of course Google is going to do much better, its a company focused on search.

Re: Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning

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This Is cool! Is it easy to convert a mediawiki to the graph store your system reads?

While the note other commenter left is correct (wikidata is not your regular mediawiki) you can also look at DBpedia which is doing pretty much what you have suggested. The TLDR answer would be: "possible, but harder than it seems".
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