Re: [SMW-devel] inference on printout statements

[Dan B. <dan...@gm...>]

On 1 October 2011 19:07, Yury Katkov <kat...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi everyone, developers and users!
>
> ==Problem==
>
> The printout statements are not currently engaged in inference in
> Semantic MediaWiki.
> For example if I have a page Moskow with a property [[is capital
> of::Russia]], which is a subproperty of the property [[located in]].
> If I construct the following query
>
> {{#ask:
>  [[is capital of::Russia]]
>  | ?located in
> }}
>
> there will be nothing in a located in column.
> == Questions ==
>
> # are there any plans to add inference in printout statements?
> # how hard is this task?
> # how many people besides myself are in need of this feature? The
> possible workarounds just seem wrong...

I agree that the above query should return "Moscow, Moscow", according
to the definition of subproperties [1].

To the extent that I expect things like "autocomplete on property =
located in" to return 'Moscow' as one of the possibilities in SF
(currently fails, but is this related?), then yes, I need features
like this.


Cheers,
Dan.

[1] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Property:Subproperty_of

> Sincerely yours,
> --
> Yury V. Katkov
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