Although this message is targeted at the developers, I encourage the robopsychologists enrolled to read this message and give any kind of feedback they see fit. It's your job, after all :)
It's been ages since I've seen any kind of real, dynamic activity from other people on this time than Adrian (gentoolx) and I. For those who don't know, we've moved bits of code from Launchpad to GitHub and re-imported back into Launchpad so we can still use this team system on Launchpad and use its APT system (until, of course, we can form our own) and still utilize the social and ever-growing community that's on GitHub. I'm actually considering getting this project onto SourceForge, but that'll require a bit of work. I'm asking the developers who wish to branded the programmers behind a monolith of technology (open source tech, at that!) that just so happens to shake up the word of artificial intelligence (or at least the F/OSS community). I strongly urge you to update (or clone, if you haven't) your local branches and build the documentation available. There's a TODO page generated for each and every branch. It'd be fantastic if we, the team, not just I, saw like 3, 4 (heck, maybe 20) revisions based off the attacking and completion of these TODOs. If people are curious about the development path for Wintermute, I'd fix that now. Adrian and I are currently working (mostly Adrian, he's online more often than me now) on a specification for Wintermute's plug-in architecture. Also, there's a specification still in the drafts regarding how data (currently only for WntrLing) will be organized. We *need* to figure out how we can: Devise a means of representing, crafting, editing and transporting ontologies and their concepts in Wintermute. With a search on the Web about the definition of "ontology", you'd get a varying set of definitions. This is the definition that I made and think is the most approriate for Wintermute: "An ontology is a white box of information (as opposed to the black box idea or a Pandora's box situation). It's organized in a particular fashion to represent knowledge. Knowledge can be a data triple in this particular case, where the data are pure concepts. A concept is merely a bit of information that only becomes knowledge once it's linked with something else via something else. For example, Boy is a concept. Boys are human is a data triple with three concepts, two representing data and a third representing the relationship between the two (in this case, a hypernymy.)" Begin crafting the GUI and see how the natural language user interface (NLUI) can be implemented via GUI or human interaction devices (HIDs). All of this could be placed on a Wiki page (someone is open to start it) as we did for the possible avatars for Wintermute. The plugin system is now in early shaping, but yet the graphical user interface system lives. Currently, it's just opening a window made using Qt Designer, but after open discussion (or by creating a replicia of the plug-in branch and making a different copy) can you then have your work pushed into the final revisions. Draw up the initial data sect to be inserted into Wintermute. Currently, I'm focused on getting the NLP engine as far away as possible from falling into a BNF-style grammar or practically becoming a self-made AIML input system. What I am noticing is that Wintermute really knows nothing about everything. Aside from the fact that I have to teach it grammar (it doesn't reply to anything I say, just so you know; merely shows me the linkages in sentences at the moment [not LINKGRAMMAR!]), it has no way of really knowing the properties of the objects it refers to. This is dependenent solely on the ontology, hence why it needs to be up ASAP. Critiques, responses and opinions are more than welcome; they're recommended! Do your part to keep Wintermute steamrolling! We want another interview from OMG!Ubuntu, or perhaps appear places. More than that, we want to build something that we won't have to wait for. You're on the team, do something! (:D) -- Jacky Alcine <http://www.jackyalcine.co.cc>
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