From: Mason Kelsey <masonkelsey@...>
Date: 2009-08-28T00:34:08+09:00
Subject: Expert Systems and Ruby

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I'm taking an advanced artificial intelligence course in graduate school at
UCF and, among other things, I am studying expert systems including:
ConceptNet3, Wordnet, Yago, CYC, Dendral, Macsyma, and Mycin.  The topic for
my class this afternoon.

My questions must have been asked before but I am new to Ruby.  I am going
to try to use Ruby for my programming assignments.  Ruby seems to be a terse
but capable language available across several platforms.  My
first assignment I would like to accomplish is to use Ruby to access some of
the expert system, especially ConceptNet3, Wordnet, and CYC.  In other
words, build a Ruby shell around the expert system.

I would like to learn how to interface with these systems.  Do I have to
download them to my computer or do I use the internet to establish an
interface, such as Ruby on Rails?   Is there any existing code that I can
use as a template that is available on a web site somewhere?  If not, a
reply with code on this forum would be helpful.

I currently have Ruby 1.8 in my Windows XP environment on a Dell Inspiron
8200 laptop that I bought in 2002.  My desktop crashed recently and I am in
the process of replacing it.  (Taught me an important lesson to use gmail
for my emails and address.)

Much thanks in advance,

No Sam

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