My guess is that such a NL interface will become public.
I think Cyc management will do what John has suggested --
make the KB available with their best NL interface,
and become consultants. (01)
Time will tell. (02)
Dick McCullough
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> What I mean by an NL interface is not just a string search, but an
> interpreter that can determine to some extent the intended meaning of a
> phrase, so someone can determine, e.g. "are there any sailing ship types
> that have three masts?" - and if none exist in the ontology, suggest a way
> to represent that, and its place in the hierarchy. The current interface
> does not do that. Cyc did have an interactive demo that assists knowledge
> enterers, but that is not part of the public open version.
>
> Pat
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:34 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] ISO merged ontology effort "MCO"
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Patrick Cassidy" <pat@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> > That lack of public openness is fatal to public acceptance. One
>> important
>> > task of the FO project I envision is to develop an on-line NL
>> interface
>> > from
>> > the earliest point to allow anyone to interrogate the ontology in
>> basic
>> > English to find out what is in there. That is non-trivial and will
>> not be
>> > solved even by making all of Cyc public.
>> >
>> > Pat
>> >
>> Cyc Foundation has made an open on-line NL interface available to
>> the public. The current interface is single-word, not phrase or
>> sentence.
>> They have also linked Cyc concepts to other KBs such as Wikipedia
>> and Dbpedia. They are encouraging everyone to add their ontologies
>> to OpenCyc.
>>
>> Dick McCullough
>> http://mkrmke.org
>>
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