Kingsley,
I've been browsing thru your OpenLinks, and have several questions:
1) How many of your concepts map to OpenCyc concepts?
Although the English labels "sound" like OpenCyc, most of
the
http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/ links are hidden under
the English labels.
2) Did you extract all the OpenCyc properties of concepts
from the OWL representation?
I am especially interested because I have been experimenting
with my own interface to OpenCyc for some time. For ordinary
human beings, it is a challenge to discover how our concepts
map to OpenCyc concepts. I picked one "English" property
cyc:CycAnnotations_v1#label
which I thought was most informative, and recorded the
150,000+ mappings of [concept,property]
http://mkrmke.net/knowledge/cyc/cyclabel.mkrIn mKE, I do a regular _expression_ match against the English
label, and then use a browser to view the OpenCyc concept
online. The next logical step, automatically getting links to the
desired properties of the concept, has so far been available
only on ResearchCyc. Cycorp plans to add that capability to
OpenCyc in the near future [ I have no date for the release].
Here's a simple example of an mKE search:
ke$ guid := do find od sail*boat with value in cyclabel;
cyclabel[Mx4rGcydXRL_T0y7b5O2vRnmig] := <Wn-20-synset-sailboat-noun-1> @en;
cyclabel[Mx4rvVjW8JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA] := <Sailboat> @en;
cyclabel[Mx8Ngh4rv3tMrJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycB4rvVjW8JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA] := <(TransportViaFn Sailboat)> @en;
ke$ ! firefox od http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/$guid;
The Massive Ontology Interface returns 2 matches for "sailboat"
and no matches for "sail boat".
I tried to search your OpenLink website, Kingsley, but I got
The web-site you are currently trying to access is
under maintenance at this time.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.
Dick McCullough
Context Knowledge Systems
What is your view?
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 14:34:58 -0400
From: kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Massive Ontology Interface
On 10/1/14 2:16 PM, John F Sowa wrote:
> For a front-end to OpenCyc, see the abstract below. That web page
> has a link to the PDF for the full paper.
>
> The concluding paragraph:
>> >Ontology interface design is in its infancy. Ironically (given the
>> >relative maturity of the two fields) it is more common to try to use
>> >ontology as a tool in HCI development than to use HCI as a tool in
>> >ontology development. We have made gains in shifting a ‘classic’
>> >ontology interface from expert-user-only to a state such that the
>> >general public may contribute to it if they wish. Our results indicate
>> >that the interface we developed does encourage users to become involved
>> >in contributing to ontological knowledge. With increased user uptake,
>> >the quality of the information contained within the ontology will
>> >improve, as well as using user feedback as an evaluation mechanism.
> One of the co-authors, Cathy Legg, had worked at Cyc for some years,
> and they have been testing the interface on university students.
> So that gives them some perspective from users, teachers, and
> developers.
>
> John
John,
Here are some links that identify documents that offer an interface into
the world of Open Cyc, in Linked Open Data form:
[1]
http://lod.openlinksw.com/describe/?url="">
-- Type of Human Capability
[2]
http://lod.openlinksw.com/describe/?url="">
-- Cooking .
--
Regards,
Kingsley Idehen
Founder & CEO
OpenLink Software
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