To: | ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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From: | Adrian Walker <adriandwalker@xxxxxxxxx> |
Date: | Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:08:29 -0400 |
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Hi Ian -- You wrote: If it [logic] weren't so awkward, more people might use it for commercial applications. There seem to be two ways to go with this -- graphics, and natural language. John Sowa can tell about the virtues of graphics in the form of Conceptual Graphs. For lightweight natural language knowledge input and use, you may like to consider Executable English, as in as a step towards energy independence, the US would like to reduce oil imports by some-number barrels per year to convert from Quadrillion Btu to barrels of gasoline, multiply by some-factor that-number / that-factor = some-quadrillion-btu liquid fuel has an average price of some-amount in 2030 (2007 $ per Million Btu) that-amount * 1000000000 = some-price-per-quadrillion-btu those-quadrillion-btu * that-price-per-quadrillion-btu = some-total$ that-total$ / 1000000000 = some-total ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ as a step towards energy independence, the US would like to reduce the cost of oil imports by that-total billion 2007 $ by 2030 See also [1-4]. Anyone have a third way? Cheers, -- Adrian [1] http://www.reengineeringllc.com/Business_Rules_and_OMG_SBVR_Presentation.pdf [2] http://www.reengineeringllc.com/A_Wiki_for_Business_Rules_in_Open_Vocabulary_Executable_English.pdf [3] http://www.reengineeringllc.com/Oil_Industry_Supply_Chain_by_Kowalski_and_Walker.pdf [4] Internet Business Logic A Wiki and SOA Endpoint for Executable Open Vocabulary English Q/A over SQL and RDF Online at www.reengineeringllc.com Shared use is free, and there are no advertisements Adrian Walker Reengineering On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Ian Bailey <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi John, _________________________________________________________________ Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/ Config Subscr: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/ontolog-forum/ Unsubscribe: mailto:ontolog-forum-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/ Community Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/ To join: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid1J To Post: mailto:ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (01) |
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