Re: Normalizing Every Thing with XDb2

neo55592_at_hotmail.com (Neo) wrote in message news:<4b45d3ad.0407141807.49af05a7_at_posting.google.com>...

ah, the revenge of prolog. a language that died as an infant. 30 years ago.

> > V Harris wrote: How do you store
> > Mr. Brown lives on Brown St.,
> > drives a brown car,
> > has brown hair,
> > wears a brown suit,
> > and has one brown
> > and one blue eye? [without redundant string 'brown']
>
> I am using a new data model (Thing Model) whose goal is to attain some
> fraction of the human brain's flexibility. XDb1 is a limited
> implementation of TM. XDb2 will be more complete. The current alpha
> version is very basic and its interface quite limited. However, I did
> enter the equivalent of the above data using its primitive GUI and
> anticipate its NLI (Natural Language Interface) will eventually accept
> the sentences below or similar (if one would like to suggest a more
> appropriate syntax, I am all ears). Additional info, view of data,
> alpha XDb2 and the db are posted at
> www.xdb2.com/Example/ThingsNamedBrown.asp
>
> Format "*X Y Z." below implies create a new thing named X and relate X
> to Z via Y. Format "* Y Z." implies relate last new thing to Z via Y.
> Format "X Y Z" implies relate X to Z via Y. Some basic things (ie
> thing, symbol, string, cls, inst, part, asm, etc) are entered into the
> db when it is first created.
>
> *live cls relator. (equiv to '*live isa relator' or 'relator inst
> *live')
> *drive cls relator.
> *wear cls relator.
>
> *color cls thing.
> *brown cls color.
> *blue cls color.
>
> *street cls thing.
> *brown cls street.
>
> *car cls thing.
> *car1 cls car.
> car1 color brown.
>
> *hair cls thing.
> *hair1 cls hair.
> hair1 color brown.
>
> *suit cls thing.
> *suit1 cls suit.
> suit1 color brown.
>
> *eye cls thing.
> *eye1 cls eye.
> eye1 color brown.
> *eye2 cls eye.
> eye2 color blue.
>
> *person cls thing.
> *brown cls person.
> * live (street)brown.
> * drive car1.
> * part hair1.
> * wear suit1.
> * part eye1.
> * part eye2.
>
> ---------------
>
> Note: "*brown cls color." would be equivalent to
>
> *. (Create new thing)
> * name brown. (Relate new thing to its name, string brown)
> * cls color. (Relate new thing to its class, color)
Received on Wed Jul 28 2004 - 18:28:36 CEST