Re: SUO: OpenCyc Released
John,
Perhaps the first task is an evaluation of OpenCyc. 6,000 concepts with
60,000 assertions about them is a large bite - it may take a while to
digest. They also seem to have a large array of tools - a browser,
inference engine, RKF tools, documentation and self paced learning
tools, specification of CycL and translators to other languages,
import/export facilities, an API and sample programs. It appears to be
a very comprehensive package. It would be nice to get user feedback on
this package before trying to smash it together with something else -
particularly if the something else isn't widely admired.
Bob
Bob
John F. Sowa wrote:
>
> I'm very pleased that OpenCyc has finally been released. Now we can
> discuss it seriously as an important resource for ontology instead
> of a hypothetical possibility for the future.
>
> That means we now have two large content resources, OpenCyc and
> SUMO, and the IFF project, which addresses the mappings and
> relationships among various resources.
>
> I suggest that the most important task before us is to address
> the following questions:
>
> 1. How are the OpenCyc and SUMO ontologies related or relatable?
>
> 2. Is it possible to merge, relate, or correlate them? Should
> they be merged into a single larger ontology, or should they
> be organized in a library of modules that can be assembled
> in different ways for different purposes?
>
> 3. How can they be used effectively together, by themselves, or
> in communications between them and with other systems that may
> use other ontologies (or no explicitly stated ontologies)?
>
> 4. Does the IFF have the mechanisms in place for relating them?
> If so, what are they? If not, how can they be added?
>
> 5. What tasks should be undertaken to assess the resources that
> are now available, and how should we approach them?
>
> This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of questions, and
> I'm sure that other subscribers to this list can think of many
> more that should be considered.
>
> John Sowa
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