Exporting attributes of nouns from OpenCyc

[davidlevy]

We would like to be able to export many attributes of nouns in one go from the topic map conversion of OpenCyc. Is there some way we can automate this process?


David Levy

davidlevylondon@yahoo.com

[akivela]

Dear Reader

This issue was resolved in emails we swapped with David and his colleague Andrew. I'll try to sketch the suggested solution in this post for future use.

David and his colleagues wanted to copy associations out of the topic map conversion of the OpenCyc [1]. As OpenCyc contains only a small number of significant association types, it is a reasonable job to copy associations type by type. Copying associations in Wandora is documented at [2]. In the case of OpenCyc, required steps are

1. Open topic that represents an association type in OpenCyc, for example the 'isa'. You'll get a page with huge association table containing all associations of that type. Notice, OpenCyc has over 265000 'isa' associations and it takes a while to build the association table in Wandora.
2. Select all associations in the association table (CTRL-a).
3. Select context menu option Copy associations > Copy associations with tab text.
4. Now you have the association table data in system clipboard and you can paste it to any application you like.

At the moment it is still too early to say if David and Andrew are satisfied with the suggested solution. If not, we have to figure out a better one -- which probably requires an additional feature to Wandora.

Kind Regards,
Aki / Wandora Team

[1] http://www.wandora.org/wandora/wiki/ind ... of_OpenCyc
[2] http://www.wandora.org/wandora/wiki/ind ... _clipboard