From: Party of C. <cit...@vc...> - 2003-03-26 21:08:25
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The Cyc Project uses the expression "common sense" quite a lot. Could you please tell us what you mean by common sense and how it is used in writing the Cyc program? POC On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Stephen Reed wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Piermarco Burrafato wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm not sure I have understood how to relate my own costants to the Cyc > > opensource framework. To better let you understand, I am working on a > > research project involving knowledge representetation and anchoring of > > symbols to semantics, and so I need to create my own costants in order > > to build a new KB capturing the problem domain. > > > > Now, if I want to make my KB a "plug in" of the OpenCyc framework, I've > > got the following questions: > > > > 1. Do I have to set the current project to OpenCycProject? And If so, why? > > No, Cyc uses the current project only for bookkeeping meta assertions > about new terms and assertions created for that project. You can create > any number of projects for your own purposes by creating a term similar to > OpenCycProject. > > > > > 2. Shell I use implementation costants or whatever for the applications > > using the KB? Shell I use them anyway? > > No, ordinarily you would not designate your own terms as implementation > constants as they are not part of the commonsense contents of the KB, but > only serve as vocabulary to support Cyc behavior such as natural language > paraphrasing. > > -Steve > > > Thanks very much indeed for any help. > > > > Best regards > > > > -- > =========================================================== > Stephen L. Reed phone: 512.342.4036 > Cycorp, Suite 100 fax: 512.342.4040 > 3721 Executive Center Drive email: re...@cy... > Austin, TX 78731 web: http://www.cyc.com > download OpenCyc at http://www.opencyc.org > =========================================================== > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! > NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en > _______________________________________________ > OpenCyc-devel mailing list > Ope...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opencyc-devel > |