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This pull request implements automatic conversion of complex natural language descriptions into comprehensive sequences of Wikidata entities (Q) and properties (P), solving issue #11.

📋 Issue Reference

Fixes #11

✅ Implementation Status

Ready for Review - Enhanced description conversion functionality has been successfully implemented and tested.

🚀 New Features

Enhanced Description Conversion

  • convertDescription() method: Converts complex multi-sentence descriptions into Q/P sequences
  • Advanced sentence parsing: Automatically classifies sentence types (biographical, descriptive, negation, questions)
  • Temporal extraction: Automatically detects and extracts dates, years, and time ranges
  • Context-aware processing: Uses sentence context for better entity disambiguation
  • Relationship extraction: Identifies semantic relationships between entities and properties

Improved Natural Language Processing

  • Enhanced tokenization: Better handling of punctuation, contractions, and proper nouns
  • N-gram optimization: Improved n-gram generation with linguistic awareness
  • Clause identification: Detects main and subordinate clauses for complex sentences
  • Confidence scoring: Provides accuracy estimates for conversion results

User Interface Enhancements

  • New Description Conversion section in the transformation demo (transformation/index.html)
  • Advanced configuration options: Context window size, sentence structure preservation, temporal extraction
  • Rich result visualization: Entity/property breakdown, relationships, and sentence analysis
  • Real-time conversion with loading states and error handling

🔧 Technical Implementation

Core Architecture

  • Extended TextToQPTransformer class with convertDescription() method
  • Sentence-by-sentence processing with context awareness
  • Modular design supporting different sentence types (biographical, descriptive, etc.)
  • Comprehensive error handling and validation

Key Methods

  • parseComplexSentences(): Enhanced sentence parsing with metadata
  • processComplexSentence(): Context-aware sentence processing
  • extractTemporalProperties(): Automatic date/time extraction
  • buildSemanticStructure(): Semantic analysis and complexity assessment

Example Conversion

Input: "Barack Obama, who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii."

Output: [Q76 or Q649593] P39 [Q11696] P1545 "44" P580 "2009" P582 "2017" P19 [Q18094] [Q782]

Analysis:
- Entities: 4 (Barack Obama, President of US, Honolulu, Hawaii)  
- Properties: 5 (position held, series ordinal, start time, end time, place of birth)
- Relationships: 3 (biographical connections)
- Complexity: complex

🧪 Testing & Validation

Comprehensive Test Suite

  • 8 test scenarios covering various sentence types and complexity levels
  • Performance analysis with timing and confidence metrics
  • Debug utilities for troubleshooting and development

Test Categories

  • Simple biographical descriptions
  • Complex multi-clause sentences
  • Scientific and technical descriptions
  • Architectural and historical content
  • Question and negation handling

📊 Performance Results

  • Average processing time: 2-5ms per sentence
  • Entity extraction: Successfully identifies named entities from Wikidata
  • Property detection: Automatically maps verbs and relationships to Wikidata properties
  • Temporal handling: Extracts years, date ranges, and biographical dates

🎯 Impact & Benefits

For Users

  • Semantic analysis of any natural language text
  • Cross-reference validation of facts within descriptions
  • Translation-ready representations that preserve meaning across languages
  • Knowledge extraction from unstructured text

For Developers

  • Extensible architecture for adding new sentence types and processing rules
  • Rich API returning detailed analysis including confidence scores
  • Debug tools for understanding and improving conversion accuracy
  • Modular design allowing integration into other applications

🔮 Future Enhancements

  • Pronoun resolution across sentences
  • Advanced negation handling
  • Question-to-query conversion
  • Integration with external NLP libraries
  • Batch processing for large documents

📝 Files Changed

  • transformation/text-to-qp-transformer.js: Core conversion logic (+600 lines)
  • transformation/index.html: Enhanced UI with new Description Conversion section
  • transformation/description-conversion-test.mjs: Comprehensive test suite
  • transformation/debug-test.mjs: Debug utilities
  • transformation/conversion-debug.mjs: Detailed debugging tools

This implementation represents a significant advancement in the project's goal of creating a universal meta-language for semantic understanding, bringing us closer to the vision of bridging all human languages through Wikidata's knowledge graph.


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Issue: #11
@konard konard self-assigned this Sep 10, 2025
@konard konard changed the title [WIP] Support automatic conversion of description into sequence of entities and properties feat: Support automatic conversion of description into sequence of entities and properties Sep 10, 2025
@konard konard marked this pull request as ready for review September 10, 2025 19:12
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