SUO: OpenCyc Announcement
Hey Pat,
In view of Doug's recent announcement
(http://www.cyc.com/opencycpressrelease03062001.html), I guess the next
thing we can expect is that Bill Gates will give away Windows 2000, to
compete with Linux :-)
I suggest we keep working on SUO, to give Doug a reason to give *everything*
away :-)
Seriously, I think that Mike Uschold's recent post makes a lot of sense. I
especially like the following quote:
MU: 'we' should instead do a systematic and thorough investigation of CYC,
and answer the above
question. The answer might be, there is no reason to build another SUO.
Alternatively, it should take the form of a thorough critique of Cyc
indicating the shortcomings, and why it is insufficient (if it is) and how
it
needs to be augmented or replaced by a 'real' SUO.. An alternative thread of
activity can be as Nicola recommends, to spend time relating alternatives,
and work towards a library of reference ontologies, one
of which will be Cyc.
Along the lines of a critique of Cyc, one starting point could be the paper:
Mahesh, Kavi, Sergei Nirenburg, Jim Cowie & David Farwell (1996) An
assessment of Cyc for natural language processing. MCCS-96-302, Computing
Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Available at
http://crl.nmsu.edu/Research/Pubs/MCCS/Abstracts/mccs-96-302.htm
Cheers,
Phil Jackson
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> [mailto:owner-standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org]On Behalf Of pat hayes
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:39 PM
> To: Philip Jackson
> Cc: standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org
> Subject: Re: SUO: On the relevance of EXPRESS, EPISTLE, etc. to SUO --
> RE: RE: RE: Some Procedural Suggestions
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> >; b) going
> >with CYC, if a suitable copyright release letter can be obtained.
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> Forget that option. Doug is not about to give away his company for
> the good of the world, and neither should he feel any obligation to,
> after the work he and about 50 others have put into it for over a
> decade. This would be like asking Bill Gates to make Windows 2000
> into freeware.
>
> Pat Hayes
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