Hi, I've certainly considered it, but I wasn't sure where I would fit and I'm > minimally familiar with OpenCog.
OpenCog has a lot of stuff in it, at varying levels of completion. However, for the specific thing you say you want to do, there's a lot of OpenCog you wouldn't need to worry about at the moment. > Also, I have some pretty strong intuitions as to how the internal > representation should look, to the point that I passed over the link parser > in favor of implementing my own parser in order to avoid a lot of work in > conversion between the two formats. > Our internal semantic representation has nothing in common with the link parser representation either: http://wiki.opencog.org/w/OpenCogAtomTypes Pretty much, I suppose if you don't like this sort of representation, then you won't want to do your project in OpenCog... It's true that converting btw the link parser representation and OpenCog's representation, is moderately complicated. On the other hand, the link parser is a pretty good parser, and building a new parser that's equal good is a lot of work... > I'm a bit concerned over losing control of the direction that's taken -- I > don't want to be forced take a back seat to someone who doesn't share my > vision. I might come on board anyway, though, since it would be nice to be > part of a team instead of going it alone, and there's no reason other than > time constraints that I couldn't continue with my own project. > Well, OpenCog is all open-source stuff, so you there would be no chance of you losing control of your code in a literal sense. However, it's true that others in OpenCog might end up forking your code in a direction you don't like.... To estimate the odds of that I'd need to understand your vision better... In principle, OpenCog is intended to support multiple uses by folks with different visions, with overlap of code wherever possible. > > Should I just email Ruiting, or what? > > I am more talkative than her, but she knows the code better. We've collaborated pretty closely on the NLP work. So if you want to explore this, it's best to email both of us in the same mails (I'm [email protected], she's [email protected]). Normally we're co-located in Hong Kong, though I'm in the US for a few weeks now... thx ben ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
