Zitgist releases UMBEL Web Services, a subject ontology based on OpenCyc
Zitgist has released UMBEL web services that provide a subject ontology, based upon the OpenCyc ontology that is linked to other useful ontologies including WordNet. A useful navigation page is here. This news is especially good for Texai because I too have adopted the OpenCyc ontology as the basis of the current symbolic portion of the Texai knowledge base. I expect that Texai can thus exchange knowledge with users adopting UMBEL.
James on 22 Apr 2008 at 4:33 pm #
Pardon my ignorance, but when will this work? I mean, what is missing before the software is able to do something? What do you expect it do be able to do? Is it just a matter of time or there are unknown in the future?
Steve Reed on 22 Apr 2008 at 9:17 pm #
Hi James,
I assume your are referring to Texai and not to UMBEL Web Services, the latter I am merely reporting on.
Please take a look at the Roadmap page for details about what has been accomplished and what the sequenced tasks are: Periodically I post project status updates.
To specifically answer your question, I feel that deployment is a matter of time. I am specifically encouraged by my recent progress on the Texai bootrstrap English dialog system. The English generation code should be done by mid-May and I estimate that the tool will be publically available in the fall. Note that the tool will not initially know much nor understand much English. Its purpose rather is to learn English vocabulary from volunteer mentors, and also construction grammar rules.
-Steve