From: ········@gmail.com
Subject: Cypher - Natural Language to RDF/SeRQL for the Semantic Web
Date: 
Message-ID: <1154437183.244110.72830@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Hi All,

I thought our technology might interest Lisp users and developers.

Cypher is one of the first software program available which generates
the metadata representation of natural language input. Cypher produces
RDF graph and SeRQL query representations of sentences, clauses,
phrases and questions. The Cypher framework provides a set of robust
definition languages, which can be used to extend and create grammars
and lexicons. Cypher programming is fun to learn and easy to use, and
the specifications are designed to allow a novice to quickly and easily
build transcoders for processing highly complex sentences and phrases
of any natural language, and to cover any vocabulary.

The free software and related documentation can be found at:

http://cypher.monrai.com
Enjoy,
sherman
From: Fred Gilham
Subject: Re: Cypher - Natural Language to RDF/SeRQL for the Semantic Web
Date: 
Message-ID: <u7zmeoyz2g.fsf@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
········@gmail.com writes:

> Hi All,
>
> I thought our technology might interest Lisp users and developers.

Hmn.

>
> Cypher is one of the first software program available which
> generates....

<stuff omitted>

> The free software ...

for non-commercial use (no source)

> ... and related documentation can be found at:
>
> http://cypher.monrai.com

This is an ad and comes right up to the line of being spam.  First of
all, this stuff is written in Java not Lisp.  Second, it's a
commercial product with a free-for-non-commercial-use-only license.
Third, as far as I can tell, there's no source code.

I'm personally not happy to see ads like this in CLL.

-- 
Fred Gilham                                  ······@csl.sri.com
Nerds aren't losers. They're just playing a different game, and a game
much closer to the one played in the real world.        -- Paul Graham