cheng@aragorn.OZ.AU.UUCP (08/28/87)
I am doing a project on Concept Classification and would like to know whether anyone has developed, have access to or can provide pointers to locate a set of concept definitions for real world knowledge. For example, definitions for physical objects like bus, vehicle, clothes etc. Definitions for primitive acts are also sought. For example, definiton for 'open', 'close', 'eat' etc. These definitions of concepts will be encoded in the conceptual graph (c.f. Sowa's book on Conceptual Structures) formalism and an interactive classification program, currently being implemented, will help to identify instances of existing concepts, insert new concepts into the knowledge base and in the process of the executing the above two functions, perform exact and partial matching on existing concepts. Ideally, these definitions are already presented in a frame-based or in an attribute-value pair form. However, other forms of presentations will certainly be considered. Could anyone possess such a set of definitions of concepts ? Any idea on where I can locate a set of these definitions ? Any comment/criticism/idea ? [A summary of the result of the responses will be posted, given that there exists sufficient interest in the readership.] Betty Cheng cheng@aragorn.oz -----------