▣ Title : Freebase

▣ Speaker

: Dr. HyunukJung (Google Korea)

▣ Date

& Time : Friday, May 31 (1:30 ~ 3:00pm)

▣ Place

: LG Research Building, Room #101

▣ Host

: Prof. Sungjoo Yoo (Tel. 2379)

▣ Abstract :

Freebase

is an open, Creative Commons Attribution (aka

CC-BY) licensed collection of structured data, and

a

Freebase platform for accessing and manipulating that data via the Freebase

API. Freebase contains about 40 million topics (aka entities) and more than 1

thousand millions of assertions or facts about those entities.

Similar to open wiki projects, Freebase is a

free source of information and may be edited by anyone. But, it has information

in a structured, machine-readable database format while wiki is based on text

articles.

For more information, http://www.freebase.com