Submissions/Platypus, a natural language question answering system

This is an Open submission for Wikimania 2017 that has not yet been reviewed by a member of the Programme Committee.

Submission no. P-9013

Title of the submission: Platypus, an open source question answering service using Wikidata

Type of submission: Poster

Author of the submission: Tpt

Language of presentation: English and French (one poster in English and one in French if possible or one multilingual poster if not)

E-mail address: thomaspellissier-tanon.fr

Username: Tpt

Country of origin: France

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.): École normale supérieure de Lyon

Personal homepage or blog

Abstract (en): Platypus is a question answering engine that uses Wikidata content to allow people to get direct answers to natural language questions about the world like What is the birth date of the president of the United States?. It works currently in both English and French. Its aim is to provide one of the pieces required to create an open source digital assistant, focused on encyclopaedic knowledge and on support of multiple languages. The poster goals are to shortly describe Platypus and show that building cool things on top of Wikidata is easy.

Abstract (fr): Platypus est un système de réponses aux questions qui utilise le contenu de Wikidata pour permettre d'obtenir des réponses directes à partir de questions en langues naturelles comme Quand est né le président des Etats-Unis ?. Il fonctionne actuellement en français et anglais. Son objectif est de fournir une des pièces requises pour créer un assistant informatique libre, centré sur les connaissances encyclopédique et le support de langues multiples. L'objectif du poster est de décrire Platypus et de montrer comment construire facilement des services au dessus de Wikidata.

What will attendees take away from this poster?: Learn that the Platypus project exits and that it is fairly easy to build external projects based on Wikidata.

Theme of presentation: Technology, Interface & Infrastructure, Sister Projects

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?: Yes

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Is this Submission a Draft or Final?: Final

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