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Cyc

Known as: The Cyc Foundation, ResearchCyc, OpenCyc 
Cyc (/ˈsaɪk/) is an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base of everyday common sense… 
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Artificial general intelligenceBelief revisionCategorical logicCommonsense knowledge (artificial intelligence)

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Cognitive architecture

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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
An Introduction to the Syntax and Content of Cyc
Spring Symposium on Formalizing and Compiling Background Knowledge and Its Applications to Knowledge Representation and Question… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
The Google Similarity Distance
Words and phrases acquire meaning from the way they are used in society, from their relative semantics to other words and phrases… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Embodied Cognition: A field guide
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Mapping Ontologies into Cyc
The advent of Web services, and the Semantic Web described by domain ontologies, highlight the bottleneck to their growth… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
An Environment for Merging and Testing Large Ontologies
Large-scale ontologies are becoming an essential component of many applications including standard search (such as Yahoo and… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
CYC: a large-scale investment in knowledge infrastructure
Since 1984, a person-century of effort has gone into building CYC, a universal schema of roughly 105 general concepts spanning… 
Review
1990
Review
1990
Cyc: toward programs with common sense
Cyc is a bold attempt to assemble a massive knowledge base (on the order of 108 axioms) spanning human consensus knowledge. This… 
Review
1990
Review
1990
Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
CYC: A Midterm Report
After explicating the need for a large commonsense knowledge base spanning human consensus knowledge, we report on many of the… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
CYC: Using Common Sense Knowledge to Overcome Brittleness and Knowledge Acquisition Bottlenecks
The major limitations in building large software have always been (a) its brittleness when confronted by problems that were not… 
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