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That BIM Girl and AskNow

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I ate a dubious mushroom Saturday evening with dire consequences.

In spite of that, I managed the trip to Rome Sunday afternoon and am now happy to be here at the Forge accelerator ↗ together with my Autodesk colleagues and the other attending companies.

Before diving in further into the accelerator, I would like to point out the new inspiring AEC resources shared by That Bim Girl, and also post some notes to self on Q4R4:

That BIM Girl

No need for many words from me to present That BIM Girl, aka Jacqueline Rohrmann ↗, student at the Technical University of Munich, TUM ↗ since she does a perfect job of it herself, e.g., in this 43-second trailer on coding for AEC ↗, #CfAEC ↗:

Here are some other resources, above all her main YouTube channel:

Specifically, here are the first two episodes on getting started writing a Revit add-in:

Coding for AEC Revit add-in

Notes to Self on AskNow for Q4R4

My Q4R4 project has been dormant for quite a while.

However, I just noticed a research project that seems as if it could cover all that I need and more, AskNowQA ↗:

The Smart Data Analytics group ↗ announced AskNow 0.1, an initial release of Question Answering Components and Tools over RDF Knowledge Graphs ↗:

The following components with corresponding features are currently supported by AskNow:

  • EARL 0.1 EARL performs entity linking and relation linking as a joint task. It uses machine learning in order to exploit the Connection Density between nodes in the knowledge graph. It relies on three base features and re-ranking steps in order to predict entities and relations.
  • SQG 0.1: This is a SPARQL Query Generator with modular architecture. SQG enables easy integration with other components for the construction of a fully functional QA pipeline. Currently entity relation, compound, count, and Boolean questions are supported.
  • AskNow UI 0.1: The UI interface works as a platform for users to pose their questions to the AskNow QA system. The UI displays the answers based on whether the answer is an entity or a list of entities, Boolean or literal. For entities it shows the abstracts from DBpedia.
  • SemanticParsingQA 0.1: The Semantic Parsing-based Question Answering system is built on the integration of EARL, SQG and AskNowUI.