Re: CG: Re: SUO: OpenCyc Released
Bob,
I agree.
> Perhaps the first task is an evaluation of OpenCyc. 6,000 concepts
> with 60,000 assertions about them is a large bite - it may take a
> while to digest. They also seem to have a large array of tools - a
> browser, inference engine, RKF tools, documentation and self paced
> learning tools, specification of CycL and translators to other
> languages, import/export facilities, an API and sample programs.
> It appears to be a very comprehensive package.
Anything that has taken 18 years of elapsed time and 500 person years
of total effort must take a great deal of time to digest. My major
concern is that I don't believe that there is anyone in the world who
really understands everything that is in Cyc and whether it is really
consistent with itself or with anything else.
> It would be nice to get user feedback on this package before trying
> to smash it together with something else - particularly if the
> something else isn't widely admired.
A lot of feedback is certainly needed. But as I have said in many
previous postings, I don't believe that smashing together is the
appropriate thing to do, either with Cyc or with the modules that
were "smashed together" to build SUMO.
What I would like to see is the opposite: a piecemeal breakdown and
analysis of exactly what is in OpenCyc and in any or all other
ontological resources and how they relate to one another.
John Sowa