<$BlogRSDUrl$> Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
Internet Happenings, Events and Sources


Thursday, June 16, 2005  



OpenCyc - Open Source General KnowledgeBase and Commonsense Reasoning Engine
http://www.cyc.com/cyc/opencyc

OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology, the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine. Cycorp set up an independent organization, OpenCyc.org, to disseminate and administer OpenCyc, and have committed to a pipeline through which all current and future Cyc technology will flow into ResearchCyc (available for R&D in academia and industry) and then OpenCyc. Release 1.0 of OpenCyc will include:

1) 6,000 concepts: an upper ontology for all of human consensus reality.
2) 60,000 assertions about the 6,000 concepts, interrelating them, constraining them, in effect (partially) defining them.
3) A compiled version of the Cyc Inference Engine and the Cyc Knowledge Base Browser.
4) A suite of tools for rapidly extracting knowledge from a domain expert, such as a physician or an oil drilling specialist.
5) Documentation and self-paced learning materials to help users achieve a basic- to intermediate-level understanding of the issues of knowledge representation and application development using Cyc.
6) A specification of CycL, the language in which Cyc (and hence OpenCyc) is written. There are CycL-to-Lisp, CycL-to-C, etc. translators.
7) A specification of the Cyc API, by calling which a programmer can build an OpenCyc application with very little familiarity with CycL or with the OpenCyc KB.
8) The ability to import and export CycML files.
9) A few sample programs that demonstrate use of the Cyc API for application development.

This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog. This has been added to ChatterBots Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.

posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM
archives
subject tracers™