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Date:1 Jan 2005 15:12:15 -0000 
Subject:Re: tourguide.p (and semnet) 
From:Aaron Sloman 
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[The bham internet connection is working again.]

"Mike Sharples" <M.Sharples@bham.ac.uk> writes:

> I'm not sure what version of "tourguide.p" you are using, but I've
> attached one that I wrote as an example of a tourist guide from the
> Computers and Thought book. It includes a Prodsys rulebase from Chapter
> 7, the sentence analysis from Chapter 5 and the London Underground
> search from Chapter 4. I have tested the code on Windows Poplog and it
> seems to work.

Thanks Mike

I have put your file on the bham web site, with some slight
modifications giving information about requirements:

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/teach/tourist_guide.p

It requires the 'semnet' program as well as the 'prodsys' package.

Semnet was a local library at Sussex university, providing an
introduction to semantic nets. It was not included in either the
commercial poplog distribution or the Birmingham-based packages.

However I have now made Semnet available with its help file (both
slightly modified) here:

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/lib/semnet.p
        Install this in $poplocal/local/lib/semnet.p

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/help/semnet
        Install this in $poplocal/local/help/semnet

Anyone who had the original version of semnet will not be able to
compile it in the standard bham poplog environment because the
latter includes objectclass. Objectclass defines 'instance' as a
new syntax word, and this clashes with the use of 'instance'
in the original Semnet library. I have therefore changed Semnet
to use 'pattern_instance' instead.

The autoloadable pattern_instance library is included in the bham
poplog packages, but anyone who does not have it can find it here

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/auto/pattern_instance.p
        (install in $poplocal/local/auto/)

with a help file here
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/help/pattern_instance


Aaron