On 1/28/11 9:31 PM, John F. Sowa wrote:
> I was talking with an old friend, Doug Skuce, who taught AI and
> knowledge engineering at the University of Ottawa for many years.
> He and his students and colleagues have developed some software
> that could be valuable for designing and supporting ontologies.
>
> In the late 80s he developed a knowledge acquisition tool called
> CODE (Conceptually Oriented Development Environment) in Smalltalk.
> Since CODE did not run on the web, he designed a new version called
> Fact Guru in the late 90s. FG can be used to organize a knowledge
> base of any kind and present it in a highly readable way;
>
> http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/factguru1/FactGuru.pdf
>
> Following is a blurb from the web site:
>
> With Fact Guru you can improve understanding by:
>
> * storing facts grouped by subject in a highly structured
> knowledge base.
>
> * searching the knowledge base to find just the fact you need
>
> * comparing subjects to see a comparison matrix of differences
>
> * viewing subjects as a graph to see relationships between them
>
> For a beginner's example that uses only English, see the knowledge
> base of Canadian Animals, which was implemented by Doug's nine year
> old daughter. Click on any animal name to find a collection of
> information about it:
>
> http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/factguru1/animals/index.html
>
> More important for ontology is the use of Fact Guru to import,
> organize, and display the top-level ontology of SUMO:
>
> http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/factguru1/sumo/index.html
>
> For an example of a knowledge base about a technical subject,
> see the Fact Guru KB about the Java programming language, which
> Doug used for teaching a course on Java:
>
> http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/factguru1/java/index.html
>
> This KB is important for two reasons: (1) it is cross linked
> to an associated HTML document about Java; and (2) it is written
> in a version of controlled English called ClearTalk.
>
> Doug is currently working with some programmers who are
> reimplementing Fact Guru with the Drupal content management
> software in order to organize and relate multiple knowledge
> bases. This could be useful for the Open Ontology Repository.
>
> I thought that participants in Ontolog Forum might express
> their wish list about features that would be useful for
> supporting ontologies and their applications. (01)
John / Doug, (02)
Very interesting! (03)
Can I access the raw controlled English facts from the knowledge
management system? I'm seeking access to the ClearTalk statements. (04)
Kingsley
> John Sowa
>
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