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Google Summer of Code
Crunch time is here! Our participation in Google’s Summer of Code program has accelerated release schedules and shifted priorities. Ben is busy writing initial documentation, converting much of it from...
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Mapping Wordnet, RelEx to OpenCog
I spent the afternoon creating a formalized mapping from RelEx and Wordnet to OpenCog. The goal is to clean things up enough so that I can run word-sense disambiguation code with opencog itself. Now,...
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OpenCog Google-Summer-Of-Code Roundup
This summer OpenCog was chosen by Google to participate in the Google Summer of Code project: Google funded 11 students from around the world to work on OpenCog coding projects under the supervision of...
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proto-chatbot at last!
Hands-on tutorials are planned for the next month or so; we’ve already had a few on PLN, and my turn is coming up, for the opencog NLP pipeline. So I thought I’d wire up a cute demo for the occasion: a...
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Sentence Patterns
I’ve recently resumed work on the question-answering chatbot, and am trying to get it to comprehend a broader range of questions and statements. The “big idea” is to create a number of “sentence...
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Meaning-Text Theory
During some recent reading, it struck me that a useful framework for thinking about and talking about sentence generation is the MTT or “meaning-text theory” of Igor Mel’cuk, et al Here is one readable...
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The Viterbi Parser
I’ve recently made some good progress on something that I’m calling “the Viterbi decoder”, a new parser for the Link Grammar natural language parser. So I guess that means its time to talk a bit about...
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Why Hypergraphs?
OpenCog uses hypergraphs to represent knowledge. Why? I don’t think this is clearly, succinctly explained anywhere, so I will try to do so here. This is a very important point: I can’t begin to tell...
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