[topicmapmail] ANNOUNCE: SemanText now available

[Eric Freese]

Finally!  I have released the 0.71 version of SemanText as open source.  You
can download it from www.semantext.com.  It does not yet support XTM, but
will in a future release.

For those of you not familiar with SemanText -
SemanText is a prototype application developed to demonstrate how the topic
map standard (ISO/IEC 13250:2000) can be used to represent semantic
networks. Semantic networks are a building block for artificial intelligence
applications such as inference engines and expert systems.

SemanText builds a knowledge base, in the form of a semantic network,  from
the topic map. New information can be added to the knowledge base and topic
map automatically when the user defines rules which are used to infer new
knowledge. All of this is done using constructs defined in the topic map
standard. The benefit of this is that the new knowledge is then
interchangeable with any other topic map enabled system. As more and more
topic map enabled applications are developed, the ability to share,
interpret, and create new knowledge will be greatly increased.

Please send me any questions or comments.

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