[opencog-dev] Re: OpenCog and Research Interest ---

2017-07-06 Thread Joseph Horner
Thank you Nil for the links to the walk through and build process (Also thanks Matthew for the Ubuntu 16.04 build environment I'll try this install since that is my OS of choice). I'll take a close look at the issue list and begin experimenting with the platform after I get a working

[opencog-dev] Inquiry about Cognitive API

2017-07-06 Thread Mitch Francis
Has any additional progress been made on this? I saw this listed on the OpenCog "ideas" page, and I believe it would align well with my interest in interactive agents (chatbot or 3D avatar). My background is as a C/C++/Java developer with some creative tendencies. At the moment I'm reading

Re: [opencog-dev] Inquiry about Cognitive API

2017-07-06 Thread Ben Goertzel
No progress but we may start making a big push on this quite soon ... On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Mitch Francis wrote: > Has any additional progress been made on this? I saw this listed on the > OpenCog "ideas" page, and I believe it would align well with my

[opencog-dev] OpenCog and Research Interest ---

2017-07-06 Thread Joseph Horner
I am a professional Software Engineering, but also a part time PhD Student in Computer Science. I have been studying Evolutionary Computation and Genetic Algorithms for years in undergrad and in my master Program. I found the OpenCog users group a while back but have not really had the time

Re: [opencog-dev] OpenCog and Research Interest ---

2017-07-06 Thread 'Nil Geisweiller' via opencog
Hi Joseph, I suppose you should build opencog first http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Building_OpenCog (Ubuntu 14.04 is mentioned but I'm sure it works with more recent versions of Ubuntu, or other distros, I'm running Debian for instance). then run the examples under the atomspace and opencog repo

[opencog-dev] Clustering for unsupervised POS learning

2017-07-06 Thread Ben Goertzel
Andres, (and also Linas and anyone else interested...) I have refreshed my memory on clustering for unsupervised POS learning... this was the approach I had fiddled with long ago, http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/alexc/papers/eacl2003.pdf https://github.com/ninjin/clark_pos_induction I note that