]> 2008/06/10 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/AudioCommunicating" class="cyc_term">AudioCommunicating</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> is a transmission of sound-borne verbal information by spoken words between two or more agents (in this way <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> differs from <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Speaking" class="cyc_term">Speaking</a>, which is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SingleDoerAction" class="cyc_term">SingleDoerAction</a>). The communication may be one-way or two-way (or multi-way). Examples of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> include a telephone conversation, a classroom discussion, and the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/GettysburgAddress_Speech" class="cyc_term">GettysburgAddress_Speech</a>. speaking Mx4rvViVN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA SpokenCommunicating have addressed will address talk have spoken will have addressed address speak spoke has talked communicativeness through speech has spoken talked will have spoken spoken will speak addressed have talked addresses had talked will have talked had spoken speaks will talk has addressed talks talking addressing had addressed The collection of all events in which a message is taken over a telephone. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SingleDoerAction" class="cyc_term">SingleDoerAction</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/TakingATelephoneMessage" class="cyc_term">TakingATelephoneMessage</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/HumanCapabilityType" class="cyc_term">HumanCapabilityType</a>. TakingATelephoneMessage taking a telephone message storytelling This is the collection of acts of orally communicating a story, as opposed to writing one down. StoryTelling TakingAFoodOrder What a waitperson does when waiting on a table. The provider of service is the waitperson. The recipient is the customer. taking a food order Telling a joke. JokeTelling telling jokes conversation Conversation Every <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Conversation" class="cyc_term">Conversation</a> includes at least two <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CommunicationAct_Single" class="cyc_term">CommunicationAct_Single</a> as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/subEvents" class="cyc_term">subEvents</a>, with the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/senderOfInfo" class="cyc_term">senderOfInfo</a> in one being the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/recipientOfInfo" class="cyc_term">recipientOfInfo</a> in the other. The collection of all events in which a human agent speaks over the telephone. Ordinarily the acoustic pattern of the speaker's utterance is translated into a series of electrical signals which are conveyed over a phone line to someone who is performing an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ListeningOnATelephone" class="cyc_term">ListeningOnATelephone</a> SpeakingOnATelephone speaking on a telephone Addressing-GreetingSomeone addressing A collection of events; a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/GreetingSomeone" class="cyc_term">GreetingSomeone</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Addressing_GreetingSomeone" class="cyc_term">Addressing_GreetingSomeone</a>, something greets someone else as with a prescribed form, title, or name. PublicSpeaking Relatively formal public speaking. Usually a podium or lecture is involved. A group of people are in the audience. The stuff spoken is usually non-fiction prose. Theatrical performances are not in this category (else rules like sender is stationary would be wrong). public speaking the concept corresponding to ILLOCUTIONARY-ACT in SENSUS-Information1997 (MeaningInSystemFn SENSUS-Information1997 "ILLOCUTIONARY-ACT") human activity HumanActivity A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/AnimalActivity" class="cyc_term">AnimalActivity</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/HumanActivity" class="cyc_term">HumanActivity</a> is a spatially-localized action each of whose "doers" (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/doneBy" class="cyc_term">doneBy</a>) is either a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/HomoSapiens" class="cyc_term">HomoSapiens</a> or a group of humans (i.e. a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Group" class="cyc_term">Group</a> all of whose members are <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/HomoSapiens" class="cyc_term">HomoSapiens</a> or groups of humans). information and CWs topic InformationAndCWs-Topic A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/AudioCommunicating" class="cyc_term">AudioCommunicating</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> is a transmission of sound-borne verbal information by spoken words between two or more agents (in this way <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> differs from <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Speaking" class="cyc_term">Speaking</a>, which is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SingleDoerAction" class="cyc_term">SingleDoerAction</a>). The communication may be one-way or two-way (or multi-way). Examples of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> include a telephone conversation, a classroom discussion, and the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/GettysburgAddress_Speech" class="cyc_term">GettysburgAddress_Speech</a>. speaking SpokenCommunicating type of cumulative event CumulativeEventType A collection of collections. Each instance of an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CumulativeEventType" class="cyc_term">CumulativeEventType</a> is an event. Moreover, each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CumulativeEventType" class="cyc_term">CumulativeEventType</a> is a collection with the following property of 'cumulativity': if PROCESS-COL is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CumulativeEventType" class="cyc_term">CumulativeEventType</a>, and PROCESS-1 and PROCESS-2 are instances of PROCESS-COL, then the minimal event containing PROCESS-1 and PROCESS-2 (that is, (#$EventSumFn PROCESS-1 PROCESS-2)) is also an instance of PROCESS-COL. A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/AudioCommunicating" class="cyc_term">AudioCommunicating</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> is a transmission of sound-borne verbal information by spoken words between two or more agents (in this way <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> differs from <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Speaking" class="cyc_term">Speaking</a>, which is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SingleDoerAction" class="cyc_term">SingleDoerAction</a>). The communication may be one-way or two-way (or multi-way). Examples of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> include a telephone conversation, a classroom discussion, and the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/GettysburgAddress_Speech" class="cyc_term">GettysburgAddress_Speech</a>. speaking SpokenCommunicating AudioCommunicating audio-communicating event A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Communicating" class="cyc_term">Communicating</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/AudioCommunicating" class="cyc_term">AudioCommunicating</a> is a transmission of sound-borne information between two (or more) agents. Specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/AudioCommunicating" class="cyc_term">AudioCommunicating</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/MusicalCommunicating" class="cyc_term">MusicalCommunicating</a>. ProcessType A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SecondOrderCollection" class="cyc_term">SecondOrderCollection</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ProcessType" class="cyc_term">ProcessType</a> is the collection intersection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/TemporalStuffType" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/DurativeEventType" class="cyc_term">DurativeEventType</a>; that is, a thing is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ProcessType" class="cyc_term">ProcessType</a> if and only if it is an instance of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/TemporalStuffType" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/DurativeEventType" class="cyc_term">DurativeEventType</a>. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ProcessType" class="cyc_term">ProcessType</a> can be constructed from instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/AccomplishmentType" class="cyc_term">AccomplishmentType</a> using <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ProcessFn" class="cyc_term">ProcessFn</a> (q.v.). type of temporally stuff-like thing that is also a type of durative event A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/AudioCommunicating" class="cyc_term">AudioCommunicating</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> is a transmission of sound-borne verbal information by spoken words between two or more agents (in this way <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> differs from <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Speaking" class="cyc_term">Speaking</a>, which is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SingleDoerAction" class="cyc_term">SingleDoerAction</a>). The communication may be one-way or two-way (or multi-way). Examples of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> include a telephone conversation, a classroom discussion, and the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/GettysburgAddress_Speech" class="cyc_term">GettysburgAddress_Speech</a>. speaking SpokenCommunicating BT <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/broaderTerm" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> TERM1 TERM2)</code> means that <code>TERM2</code> is broader than <code>TERM1</code>, in an extremely general sense of "broader". For example, <code>TERM2</code> is, in the relevant sense, broader than <code>TERM1</code> if any of the following hold: <code>TERM2</code> is a collection that subsumes <code>TERM1</code>; <code>TERM2</code> is a collection that has <code>TERM1</code> as an instance; <code>TERM2</code> is a collection, instances of which have instances of the collection <code>TERM1</code> as parts; <code>TERM2</code> has <code>TERM1</code> as a part; This list of reasons for why <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/broaderTerm" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> TERM1 TERM2)</code> could hold is not exhaustive, but it should give a good indication of how general the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/broaderTerm" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> relation actually is. broaderTerm A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/AudioCommunicating" class="cyc_term">AudioCommunicating</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> is a transmission of sound-borne verbal information by spoken words between two or more agents (in this way <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> differs from <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Speaking" class="cyc_term">Speaking</a>, which is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SingleDoerAction" class="cyc_term">SingleDoerAction</a>). The communication may be one-way or two-way (or multi-way). Examples of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> include a telephone conversation, a classroom discussion, and the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/GettysburgAddress_Speech" class="cyc_term">GettysburgAddress_Speech</a>. speaking SpokenCommunicating prettyString (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/prettyString" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/prettyString" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. Pretty String A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/AudioCommunicating" class="cyc_term">AudioCommunicating</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> is a transmission of sound-borne verbal information by spoken words between two or more agents (in this way <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> differs from <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Speaking" class="cyc_term">Speaking</a>, which is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SingleDoerAction" class="cyc_term">SingleDoerAction</a>). The communication may be one-way or two-way (or multi-way). Examples of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpokenCommunicating" class="cyc_term">SpokenCommunicating</a> include a telephone conversation, a classroom discussion, and the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/GettysburgAddress_Speech" class="cyc_term">GettysburgAddress_Speech</a>. speaking SpokenCommunicating