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RE: SUO-CE: Way Ahead?
This sounds very reasonable to me.
John Velman
"Horn, Graham" <graham.horn@aihw.gov.au>@ieee.org on 12/04/2000 07:38:50 PM
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Subject: RE: SUO-CE: Way Ahead?
SUO-CEers,
. This sounds a reasonable option to me. How do others
feel?
. In view of the absence of any other options having turned up
(I was thinking of the work David Whitten has done with the "SUO-KIF"), if
we have reasonable consensus, I would suggest we go this path for SUO-CE.
Regards Graham Horn
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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Fax: 02.6244.1199
Email: Graham.Horn@aihw.gov.au <mailto:graham.horn@aihw.gov.au>
-----Original Message-----
From: Norbert E. Fuchs [mailto:fuchs@ifi.unizh.ch]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 2:20 PM
To: Horn, Graham; 'suo-ce@ieee.org'
Subject: RE: SUO-CE: Way Ahead?
At 13:37 +1100 00/12/5, Horn, Graham wrote:
>Norbert,
> . This sounds basically reasonable
>to me at this stage.
>
> . Before I make a recommendation, I'm a little
>unsure about your qualification "For major activities outside
>these defined fields" (presumably meaning subject fields?).
>I didn't notice any commentary on the fields involved.
>Could you please just elaborate a bit?
Graham
My formulation was deliberately vague.
The cooperation with our partners covers the following subject fields:
description of medical diseases and their courses, specification of
constraint logic programs, synthesis of web sites and knowledge sharing
between web sites. In each case our partners are responsible for their
respective subject field, while my group takes care of the required
extensions of ACE. Initial investigations within the medical subproject
resulted already in some extensions, for instance past tense and passive
voice. However, what other extensions will be necessary I cannot yet tell
in detail. Remember, this is a research project.
Thus extensions needed for SUO could already be available or be easily
implemented, or they could require a major effort demanding extra funding.
Regards.
Norbert E. Fuchs
Institut für Informatik
Universität Zürich
CH-8057 Zürich
Telefon +41-1-635 43 13
Fax +41-1-635 68 09
Email fuchs@ifi.unizh.ch
WWW http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/~fuchs/
-----Original Message-----
From: Norbert E. Fuchs [mailto:fuchs@ifi.unizh.ch]
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 4:56 AM
To: Horn, Graham; 'West, Matthew MR SSI-GREA-UK'; 'suo-ce@ieee.org'; King
Martin (E-mail); King Tim (E-mail); Sowa John (E-mail); Whitten David
(E-mail); 'Adam Pease'
Cc: uschwert@ifi.unizh.ch
Subject: RE: SUO-CE: Way Ahead?
At 12:08 +1100 00/11/29, Horn, Graham wrote:
...
Norbert,
. Under what circumstances and conditions would ACE be available for
the SUO?
. I gather that the code of the parser would remain confidential to
some organisation. Uni of Zurich? But what about the rest?
In particular, would people be able to access a comprehensive
list/specification enabling them to write compliant code if they followed
it? Would this require the outlay of money, or could they get it gratis,
say, from a web site, like many other languages, etc. (eg. HTML)?
. What would apply regarding upgrades? Also, what are the mechanisms
for contributing issues and suggestions to the list of items awaiting
development ...
Dear SUO-CE protagonists
Here are my answers to Graham questions. I preferred to wait until SUO-CE
was firmly established.
The gist of my answers is that I am pleased that you consider using ACE for
SUO, and that I am prepared to contribute within the limits outlined below.
Under what circumstances and conditions would ACE be available for
the SUO?
The code for the Attempto system is not available. However, we will make
the
complete Attempto system accessible via its web interface, i.e. users can
modify the lexicon, can create and modify ACE texts, can translate them,
can
query and execute them, and can export the internal logic representations
(discourse representation structures, first-order predicate logic, clausal
form of first-order predicate logic).
In particular, would people be able to access a comprehensive
list/specification enabling them to write compliant code if they followed
it?
Does this refer to the ACE documentation? If yes, the current version of
the
ACE manual is available
(ftp://ftp.ifi.unizh.ch/pub/techreports/TR-99/ifi-99.03.pdf) and so will be
the next one. Probably there will also be an on-line version once the ACE
web interface will be operational.
Would this require the outlay of money, or could they get it gratis,
say, from a web site, like many other languages, etc. (eg. HTML)?
Using the ACE web site will be gratis.
What would apply regarding upgrades? Also, what are the mechanisms
for contributing issues and suggestions to the list of items awaiting
development
I will participate at the SUO-CE discussions. If there will be suggestions
for extensions of ACE I will consider incorporating them if - first - they
do not violate the spirit of ACE and - second - we can afford the time to
do
so.
Please notice, that the funding I currently have is intended for
development
work to be done in cooperation with our partners in Sweden, Great Britain,
Spain and Brazil. For major activities outside these defined fields
additional funding would be required.
Norbert E. Fuchs
Institut für Informatik
Universität Zürich
CH-8057 Zürich
Telefon +41-1-635 43 13
Fax +41-1-635 68 09, Email fuchs@ifi.unizh.ch <mailto:fuchs@ifi.unizh.ch>
WWW http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/~fuchs/