- From: Richard H. McCullough <rhm@PioneerCA.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:26:55 -0800
- To: "Semantic Web at W3C" <semantic-web@w3.org>, "OWL at W3C" <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
- Cc: "John De Oliveira" <johndcyc@gmail.com>, "Rob McCool" <robm@robm.com>
The mKR version is now available on my web site
http://mKRmKE.net/knowledge/cyc/UpperOntology.mkr
Feel free to peruse it with your internet browser -- it's
actually quite readable.
Of course, the easiest way to look at the Cyc Upper Ontology
is to use myKnowledgeExplorer
ke -cyc
but don't expect to find your everyday concepts at your
fingertips. The Cyc knowledge base is filled with "strange"
concepts which play a key role in its common-sense reasoning.
For example, here's the top layer of concepts.
$ ke -cyc
...
ke$ Thing isc ?;
Thing
/ Class
/ CycLQuery
/ CycLTerm
/ DocumentationConstant
/ ELSentence-Assertible
/ ELTemplate
/ ELVariable
/ IndexicalConcept
/ Individual
/ Intangible
/ Microtheory
/ PartiallyIntangible
/ PartiallyTangible
/ Path-Generic
/ PathSystem
/ ReformulatorHighlyRelevantFORT
/ ReformulatorIrrelevantFORT
/ Relation
/ SetOrCollection
/ SubLSymbol
/ TangibleThing
/ TheTerm
ke$
Another caveat -- there are lots of infinite loops in the
concept hierarchy (just try "Thing isc* ?;").
I will probably replace the official Cyc structure with
my "Class is the set of class names" structure.
Dick McCullough
knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
knowledge haspart proposition list;
http://mKRmKE.org/
Received on Monday, 12 February 2007 18:27:36 UTC