Has anybody built tools for use with the SQL2000 English Query system?

[Hans]

AIML is a dog's dinner, and from my recent investigations, English Query is
a very likely candidate for large scale intelligent data-mining; however,
the process of building semantically correct and flexible databases is
something I cannot find ANY information on...

Does anyone on this list have practical/professional experience using EQ for
anything at all?

Thanks,

Hans :)

[Iscando]

"Hans" <ha...@logicjunction.com> wrote in message news:<tfg8uek...@corp.supernews.com>...

Hello Hans:
Have you looked at Visual Prolog? It has the best internal database
system in the world today. It is the easiest to use, and it is fast.
The access is seamless within the language. It is hard to tell where
the language leaves off and the database begins. It is ideal for
natural language processing as that is what it was created to do. It
is not a complex inventory handling system, that relates only to
specifically defined database terms. Visual Prolog has one of those
types of databases also, for external disk located databases, that are
inherently slower and more difficult to use. THese types of databases
are becomming less usefull as the RAM memory size of the machines is
increasing.We now have common systems with more than 1000 meg (1 g) of
RAM. If this is not big enough for you section it off and just put the
segments (complete file) into the external db and call it when needed.
You set up your memory as related to priority access. store complete
databases in the external db and call it relative to subject. example
externaldbpredicate("term or chain","natural language
catagory",Complete internal database catagory as a string) take it
from the external write it to a file on disk as
file_str("filename",Sring from external db) now you can just consult
it in to the internal NAMED db I was doing this from dos 2.11 14 years
ago. when the ram was very small less than 300k Also VP has the
ability to program with sockets so that you can do a universal user
interface in Java, and communicate to the prolog system and it's
database via sockets.

Have a look at Visual Prolog, There is a free personal version of VP
5.2 available FREE at

http://www.visual-prolog.com/

Do me a favor if you decide to use there system, drop l...@pdc.dk a
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