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Abstract Wikipedia (https://abstract.wikipedia.org)

26 points by abbe98 1 day ago | 9 comments | View on ycombinator

internet_points 1 day ago |

> Let's follow one example: Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. In Abstract Wikipedia, this might be stored as: Z27243(Q1033, Q138758272, Q6256, Q15, Z27243K5)

Haha that's like John Wilkins' "Real Character, and a Philosophical Language"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ricerca_della_Lingua_Perfet... is a great intro to the weird and wonderful world of abstract/universal/ideal/a priori languages.

rustyhancock 1 day ago |

One issue with projects like this just show me what it is on the front page.

Even the featured article section is empty!

orbital-decay 1 day ago |

Are they trying to reinvent Cyc?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

zinekeller 1 day ago |

For context, this was proposed way back in 2013 (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia), when machine translation is just plain bad (and LLMs are only known in academic circles). Surprised that AWiki is now active though.

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casey2 1 day ago |

So rather than machine translation... really primitive machine translation with extra steps?