## Adding to the CYC® Lexicon using WALES

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WALES (Web-Assisted Lexical Entry System) allows a user to add new instances of #$EnglishWord to the CYC® lexicon as well as add or modify assertions involving these instances.

English words are represented in the KB as constants which are instances of #$EnglishWord. Assertions involving an instance of #$EnglishWord describe the word's syntactic properties and semantic interpretations. For a list of linguistically-related collections and predicates, see the CYC® Lexicon Vocabulary and Linguistic Terms.

As a convention, simple word constants are named "Blah-TheWord" where "Blah" is the root form of the represented word. "Root form" has the same meaning in the CYC® lexicon as it does in standard dictionaries.

#$EnglishWord is a subset of #$LexicalWord, the collection of all words in the CYC® lexicon. Currently, English is the only language which has words in the CYC® lexicon, but when other languages are included, new subsets of #$LexicalWord (such as #$FrenchWord or #$SwahiliWord) will be created.

This tutorial is intended to be used with WALES displayed in a second Web browser window. You can get to WALES by selecting "Add to Lexicon" from the CYC® Main Menu or Navigator page.

Before you practice adding words to the CYC® Lexicon, be sure that your server is in "Isolated" mode, so that your operations are not added to the master transcript. While in "Isolated" mode, your operations will be saved in a local transcript file. If you want to see what operations are produced from your actions in WALES, you can see them in this local transcript file.

## Contents:

- Adding Regular Nouns
- Adding Irregular Nouns
- Adding Proper Nouns
- Adding Agentive Nouns
- Adding Regular Verbs
- Adding Irregular Verbs
- Adding Adjectives
- Adding Adverbs
- Adding Proper Names
- Adding Compound and Multi-Word String Assertions
- Notes on creating new word constants
- Notes on finding good denotations

Last Update: 03/28/2002