xOperator templates

This is the template overview section. Here is a list of templates with their patterns grouped by their usage scenario. For each template we will give some examples and screenshots.

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The following technical usage scenario was deployed:

Scenario: Personal information management (iCal/FOAF/etc.)

Personal information management appears to be a natural application for xOperator. People in our IM contact lists are usually those whose contact and calendar information we frequently need. Consequently, when people in our contact lists attach their iCAL calendars and FOAF profiles to xOperator we are easily able to query these:

Pattern: WHAT IS THE * OF * Description: This pattern searches a attribute of the FOAF space and finds foaf:Person(s) related to it. (P2P querying, FOAF schema) Example: WHAT IS THE phone OF Sören Example: WHAT IS THE birthday OF Jörg

Scenario: DBpedia querying

A semantic search is available for DBpedia. It consists of two templates, which normally should be called consecutively.
The first question asked is of the form What is a *, which provides answers for available categories for the search term. The second question is Tell me more about * the * , which provides a precise answer for a typed search term. Note that in spite of the simplicity of these templates, it already provides a more semantic search than mere keyword mappings as Google does. For example, if a user is searching for a certain chinatown festival, he can first ask What is a chinatown and will be presented the following answer:

a/an chinatown might be one of the following:
enclave, musical, musical comedy, musical theater, film, attraction in Hyōgo Prefecture, chinatown, album, record album, building and structures in Vancouver, station, landmark, film directed by William A. Wellman, flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, picture, picture show, festival in the United States, festival in New York City, festival, pageant, superhero, american, play, neighborhood of Yokohama
The user can then ask Tell me more about chinatown the festival and he will be presented precise answers, not just merely a list with links where he has to pick one for himself.

Pattern: WHAT IS A * Description: Queries DBpedia and searches concepts matching the asterisk. Example1: What is a chinatown
Pattern: TELL ME MORE ABOUT * THE * Description: Queries DBpedia and Searches information for an individual (first asterisk), which belongs to a certain category (second asterisk) Example2: Tell me more about chinatown the festival

Screenshots of running this examples for the templates

Click here to read why this search is in some ways better than Googles keyword mappings.