Re: SUO: OpenCyc Announcement
Regarding the press release:
"[A] greatly expanded version of the Cyc Common Sense Knowledge Base will
be made available in open access form under the name OpenCyc. In addition,
Cycorp will, for the first time, provide the Cyc Inference Engine and a
suite of tools for creating knowledge-based applications. OpenCyc 1.0 will
be released on July 1, 2001. ..."
I did not attend Lenat's speech, and if someone here did maybe you can
report more details than are in the press release. In particular, I
wonder what "open access form" means. If he meant Open Source, there are
several Open Source licenses for content available that he could agree to
use. The content goes out of his control after that, so perhaps that's
not what he means. Also, I'm curious whether the CIE and tools suite also
fall under the "open access form", or if this is just a commercial plug
for them. (In short, the press release is ambiguous.)
-Matt Jensen
NewsBlip.com
Seattle
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Gian Piero Zarri wrote:
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> >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
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> >Cheers,
> >
> >Phil Jackson
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> See also the section on Cyc (section 3.44) in my recent book (with
> E. Bertino and B. Catania) on "Intelligent Database Systems",
> Addison-Wesley/ACM Press, 2001.
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> G.P. Zarri
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