Re: Inconsistent models, mapping, interoperability, and the SUO
Rich,
What kinds of rules are you looking for exactly?
Can you give me an example of the kind of query you want your system to
answer?
-Rob
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 23:51, Rich Cooper wrote:
> Rob Freeman wrote
>
> Rich. Why use WordNet? Why not use words?
> ...
>
> -Rob
>
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> because WordNet has a large initial charge of nouns in a class lattice
> that reflects common usage of those nouns. To start from scratch, I could
> extract words and build my own list, but then I wouldn't have any of the
> collateral information about synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, hypernymy,
> meronymy and all the relational database descriptions of those relations to
> start from.
>
> This approach appears to provide some initial legs up to stand on so
> corpus analysis can be used to flesh out the sparse WordNet conceptual
> structures.
>
> Since WordNet has no deductive mechanisms, I've added an FOL rule
> engine, but won't have any rules to put into it until I find a source of
> those rules. So far, I haven't found any way of automating or kick
> starting the rule base though. Cyc doesn't relate its conceptual
> structures to WordNet (unless someone out there knows something about how
> its done). There are a few rule bases (FrameNet, VerbNet, ...) but nothing
> as widely accepted as WordNet so far as I know.
>
> I'm just trying to provide a basic capability to advance linguistic Q&A
> technology half a step.
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>
>
> Thanks for the comments,
>
> Rich