Comments on: OpenCyc 1.0 Released http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2006/08/opencyc_10_rele/ Running commentary about agile development, user experience design and Ajax. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:33:43 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bizliner http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2006/08/opencyc_10_rele/comment-page-1/#comment-931 Bizliner Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:20:01 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2006/08/opencyc_10_rele/#comment-931 <p>I've read that OpenCyc will handle natural language. Are there plans for conversations at some point? </p> <p><br /> Yes. There are plans for OpenCyc to be able to understand and generate natural language. Right now (April 2002) OpenCyc has NL generation, but not parsing. Some of the work for making conversations with OpenCyc possible will come from the OpenCyc community.</p> <p>You can easily generate NL with OpenCyc. We have an API gateway -- it's not in the API docs yet -- for NL generation.</p> <p>Try this in SubL: (generate-phrase #$France)</p> <p>OpenCyc will return: France</p> <p>Try this in SubL: (generate-phrase #$UnitedStatesOfAmerica)</p> <p>OpenCyc will return: the United States</p> <p>generate-phrase will also take assertions as arguments.</p> <p>Try this in SubL: (generate-phrase '(#$isa #$UnitedStatesOfAmerica #$Nation))</p> <p>OpenCyc will return: the United States is nation</p> <p>OpenCyc speaks Engish but does not understand much English yet. We will give you api calls to our parsers in later releases. Full Cyc already has thousands of idiomatic templates.</p> I’ve read that OpenCyc will handle natural language. Are there plans for conversations at some point?

Yes. There are plans for OpenCyc to be able to understand and generate natural language. Right now (April 2002) OpenCyc has NL generation, but not parsing. Some of the work for making conversations with OpenCyc possible will come from the OpenCyc community.

You can easily generate NL with OpenCyc. We have an API gateway — it’s not in the API docs yet — for NL generation.

Try this in SubL: (generate-phrase #$France)

OpenCyc will return: France

Try this in SubL: (generate-phrase #$UnitedStatesOfAmerica)

OpenCyc will return: the United States

generate-phrase will also take assertions as arguments.

Try this in SubL: (generate-phrase ‘(#$isa #$UnitedStatesOfAmerica #$Nation))

OpenCyc will return: the United States is nation

OpenCyc speaks Engish but does not understand much English yet. We will give you api calls to our parsers in later releases. Full Cyc already has thousands of idiomatic templates.

]]> By: James Owen http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2006/08/opencyc_10_rele/comment-page-1/#comment-930 James Owen Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:04:55 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2006/08/opencyc_10_rele/#comment-930 <p>Cyc has been in production since about 1985 or so. Dr. Lenat wrote his seminal publication on Cyc in 1989 and predicted that it would be finished in 1995. In 1995 he stretched this out to 2025. Maybe. It is, nore correctly, a KnowledgeBase rather than a RuleBase and contains far, far more informtion that any rulebase would, or could, want to do. Just an thought... :-)</p> Cyc has been in production since about 1985 or so. Dr. Lenat wrote his seminal publication on Cyc in 1989 and predicted that it would be finished in 1995. In 1995 he stretched this out to 2025. Maybe. It is, nore correctly, a KnowledgeBase rather than a RuleBase and contains far, far more informtion that any rulebase would, or could, want to do. Just an thought… :-)

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