Hmm. Anyone have any suggestions for good primers on knowledge representation? I have a relatively complicated web of knowledge I want to write up for my games procedural generators and feel my current methods leave something to be desired. :/

@Angle
What kind of knowledge are you trying to represent, specifically? (Like, predicates? Relations? Sets of possible details?)

@natecull is more likely to have specific recommendations for texts than I am, I think.

@enkiv2 @natecull All of the above. For example, here's my storage of data for elements, like fire, earth, air, water:

ArrayList<CharacterTree.Focus> focuses;
ArrayList<Ability.Detail> targetDetails;
ArrayList<Ability.Detail> effectDetails;
ArrayList<Ability.Detail> costDetails;
ArrayList<Ability.Detail> scalingDetails;
ArrayList<String> relations;
ArrayList<StatDescriptor> primaryAttributes;
ArrayList<StatDescriptor> secondaryAttributes;
ArrayList<StatDescriptor> debuffAttributes;
HashMap<String, Float> resistances;
Obviously, it's a fucking mess. :/

@Angle @natecull
I'd start with a system like triples, probably. (Triples are what RDF uses, in theory, and a lot of stuff decomposes into triples.)

A triple is a relation between two things, so it's basically just a 3-tuple of IDs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_triple

I don't recommend actually using RDF. But, for instance, CMU NELL just stores all its knowledge as a 3-column TSV of unique names.

@enkiv2 @natecull Hmm. Are there any good libraries for this kind of thing for Java? Or is that massive overkill? :/