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[tools-yak@collab] Re: PyOKBC now has readonly support for TheBrain's .b

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From: Andrius Kulikauskas <ms@xxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 13:23:49 +0300
Message-id: <3EC0C7B5.3040700@ms.lt>
Shawn, Thank you for this (on the Blue Oxen list 
http://www.blueoxen.net) - I'm sending it onward to our group 
personalbrain@yahoogroups.com which I invite you to join by sending a 
blank message to personalbrain-subscribe@yahoogroups.com    (01)

It was great meeting you at Santa Cruz for http://www.givingspace.org 
and I enjoyed learning about your http://www.nooron.org  Peace,    (02)

Andrius
http://www.ms.lt
ms@ms.lt    (03)

Shawn Murphy wrote:    (04)

> There is now first cut access to TheBrain's .brn files from Nooron
> through PyOKBC.  As expected, .brn files have so little structure that
> teasing out the semantics of a random brain file relies on various
> fallible heuristics.  The point was to be able to publish the contents
> of .brn files using Nooron and that objective is now basically
> achieved.  Areas for improvement include:
>   1) initial caps before smashing words together for auto WikiWord frame
>      names
>   2) remove more junk characters to make better WikiWords
>   3) actually create slot frames
>   4) smash together words but with an initial lowercase for slotnames 
>     (ala OWL)
>   5) make links between nodes
>   6) reify some slot values (e.g. Languages in the world_encyclopedia)
>   7) finally implement on-the-fly file format conversion
> 
> These sample brains:
>   http://www.nooron.org/know/latin_to_english_phrases
>   http://www.nooron.org/know/world_encyclopedia
>   http://www.nooron.org/know/elements
>   http://www.nooron.org/know/famous_quotations
>   http://www.nooron.org/know/internet_ports_and_protocols  (very broken)
> are from:
>   http://www.aiagentz.com/brains.jsp
> 
> I am not a Brain user myself [that came out wrong] and I would quite
> like to get my hands on some Brain files which are rich in associations
> since all the AiAgentz examples are essentially just flat databases.  If
> anybody has Brain files (.brn) that they'd like to see published through
> Nooron, drop me a line.  It would really help me out, thanks!  Likewise
> for sitebrains.
> 
> <zombie>Brainz...  Brainz...</zombie>
>     (05)

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