Re: Cypher - Natural Language to RDF/SeRQL for the Semantic Web

Hi Harlan,

The program requires a description of language phrase patterns, as well
as a lexicon (vocabulary) which links the natural languguage phrases to
RDF output. The RDF is always needed, as it serves the the semantic
serialization for natural language constructs. The novice NLP developer
is needed to encode the grammars and/(or at the least) the words in the
lexicon.

-sherman
Harlan Messinger wrote:
smonroe wrote:
Hi All,

I thought our technology might interest the group.

Cypher is one of the first software program available which generates
the RDF graph and SeRQL query representations of a natural language
input. The Cypher framework provides a set of robust definition
languages, which can be used to extend and create grammars and
lexicons. The Cypher specifications are designed to allow a novice to
quickly and easily build transcoders for processing highly complex
sentences and phrases of any natural language, and to cover any
vocabulary.

Why would a novice need to do this? If software exists that is that
effective at parsing the semantics out of natural language, then the
search engines will start using it themselves, applying it directly to
the natural-language content on the pages it scans, and there will no
longer even be a reason for pages to contain RDF or other metadata.

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