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Re:Dat – Distributed Dataset Synchronization and Versioning by nl on Friday May 26, 2017 @02:00AM (#14422250)
Thankyou for your work on ConceptNet. It's the best public knowledge graph in existence.

Just today I was using the multilingual Conceptnet-numberbatch word vectors[1], which would not be possible without your work.

To your point though - you can use Amazon S3 as a seed for Bitorrent downloads, which might help some and reduce what you pay. See [2]

[1] https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet-numberbatch

[2] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/S3Torrent.htm...

Re:Dat – Distributed Dataset Synchronization and Versioning by rspeer on Friday May 26, 2017 @06:16AM (#14423024)
Yep, ConceptNet Numberbatch is my work too, and it's been the most effective way to show that knowledge graphs matter -- that there is more to know about word relationships than you can get from distributional semantics ("word2vec") alone.
Re:Dat – Distributed Dataset Synchronization and Versioning by nl on Friday May 26, 2017 @07:13AM (#14423229)
Oh really? Very nice... although I'm only using the aligned distributional semantic nature of them.

I have some background in question answering over knowledge graphs, though, so I'm familiar with their strengths.

Re:Dat – Distributed Dataset Synchronization and Versioning by rspeer on Friday May 26, 2017 @11:16AM (#14424623)
I'd be interested to hear about what you're doing with it.

In my company Luminoso's work, it's important in building domain-specific models that can be used for topic detection, search, and classification. Beyond that, I use it for mostly the basic demos -- word similarity, text similarity, analogies, et cetera.

I believe based on its performance there that it should be a pure upgrade to the kind of applications that use word2vec, but I'd like to know what particular applications it's being used in besides my own.