ThoughtTreasure
Technology: ThoughtTreasure
is a tool set developed by
Erik Mueller for writing agents to process text on the
Internet. Includes subagents for parsing words, phrases, ends of
sentences, human names, usernames, email addresses, email headers,
Usenet newsgroup names, Usenet attributions, communicons, times and
dates, telephone numbers, titles of books/songs/films, product
names. (MORE).
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ThoughtTreasure also includes:
- English and French lexicon - 50,133 words/phrases.
- Ontology/database - 21,521 concepts, 37,162 assertions, concise
format, space represented by 2-d grids connected by wormholes,
grids for house/restaurant/theater/street/subway.
- 67,966 lines of ANSI C source code.
- Syntactic parser - base component, filters, transformations.
- Surfacy semantic parser - intension/extension, relative clauses,
appositives, genitives, tense/aspect.
- Anaphoric parser - deixis, determiners, pronouns, c-command.
- English and French generator.
- Planning agents - simulating human and device behavior, graspers,
containers, ptrans++, atrans++, mtrans++, devices (telephone/TV/car),
interpersonal relations.
- Understanding agents - converting surfacy parse into detailed
understanding, steering planning agents, contexts, common sense
knowledge, emotions, goals, question answering, asking clarifying
questions, appointments, sleep, grids by analogy.
- Learning - extracting data from tables/Usenet articles, learning
new words using derivational rules, learning new inflections by
analogy.
- Tools/utilities - shell, concordance, report generation.