[Wicher]

> I will have a reduced teaching commitment. :-)

I found your classes quite engaging. So the "reduced-teaching-:-)" might not be an attribute of the student community.

Still, good luck in further developing C-Phrase. I remember I was quite impressed by its capabilities (when you had me testdrive it, little less than two years ago).

From what I remember, it required a person with nonzero understanding and intelligence (call it an 'expert') to set up and tune the ontologies (ongoingly). But at the same time the natural language interface could be used by laymen, with the expert working the system behind the scenes, ongoingly extending it wherever needed (maybe driven by failed queries that look right, but don't work). How much skill do you think such an expert needs to possess? Or do you plan on cutting out this 'middle man'?

PS The video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWio8bHq4wQ) at 2:20 gave me a laugh because the guy seems to attempt middle-mouse-button-pasting an X11 selection on a system that's not X11. Quite some people here will know how that feels ;-)