Re: [opencog-dev] Newbie

2019-05-30 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 3:25 PM buj wrote: > Upon further study, I have become quite confused on atomspace's type > system. Let me explain: > > I was on my quest to understand which links are executable, and which are > evaluatable. So I came across various resources: the scheme command >

Re: [opencog-dev] Understanding AtomSpace through Java

2019-05-30 Thread Linas Vepstas
I converted this email to a brand-new intro for the wiki page https://wiki.opencog.org/w/AtomSpace#Overview -- linas On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 3:01 PM Linas Vepstas wrote: > Hi Jack, > > Wow! I welcome the effort, its nice to have projects influence one-another. > > I would like to point out

Re: [opencog-dev] Understanding AtomSpace through Java

2019-05-30 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi Jack, I looked over the google-docs document on anticipatory machine reading. You might get new insight from reading http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/courses/syntactic-theory-09/literature/MTT-Handbook2003.pdf Sylvain *KAHANE 's* review of Meaning-Text theory. I think you will enjoy the way

Re: [opencog-dev] Understanding AtomSpace through Java

2019-05-30 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi Jack, Wow! I welcome the effort, its nice to have projects influence one-another. I would like to point out something: to **understand** the atomspace, reading the source code is probably the hardest, most confusing, and misleading way of doing it (as in there lurks bugs and occasional bad

Re: [opencog-dev] Re: RelEx Issue: "no link-grammar-jar in java.library.path"

2019-05-30 Thread Vitaly Bogdanov
Hi Jack, If Java complains that something is not in "java.library.path" it means that ".jar" package you loaded tries to load native (JNI) shared library and cannot find it. In the case it complains that it cannot find "liblink-grammar-java.so" library. First of all you may check if this file

[opencog-dev] Understanding AtomSpace through Java

2019-05-30 Thread Jack Park
Since I have limited experience with c/c++, but some ability to transliterate other programs to Java, I decided to build a Java version of AtomSpace solely to better understand how AtomSpace is supposed to work. The project is far from functional but already is helping me understand this

Re: [opencog-dev] Re: RelEx Issue: "no link-grammar-jar in java.library.path"

2019-05-30 Thread Jack Park
Hi Vitali and Linus > Ran configure, then make clean. Here's the trace for java-jni >> > make[2]: Entering directory '/home/jackpark/Downloads/link-grammar-5.6.1/bindings/java-jni' CC jni-client.lo CXXLD liblink-grammar-java.la ar: `u' modifier ignored since `D' is the default (see `U')

Re: [opencog-dev] Re: RelEx Issue: "no link-grammar-jar in java.library.path"

2019-05-30 Thread Jack Park
Hah! After the clean make, Linus's suggestion to add -Djava.library.path=/usr/local/lib to the VM args in Eclipse did the trick. I have exercises which pass the same sentence directly to the parser and to RelEx; both exercises run just fine. In a different thread, I'll explain what I am working