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Cyc
Known as:
The Cyc Foundation
, ResearchCyc
, OpenCyc
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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 intelligence
Belief revision
Categorical logic
Commonsense 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
Cynthia Matuszek
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J. Cabral
,
M. Witbrock
,
J. DeOliveira
AAAI Spring Symposium: Formalizing and Compiling…
2006
Corpus ID: 9826831
Spring Symposium on Formalizing and Compiling Background Knowledge and Its Applications to Knowledge Representation and Question…
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
The Google Similarity Distance
Rudi L. Cilibrasi
,
P. Vitányi
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data…
2004
Corpus ID: 59777
Words and phrases acquire meaning from the way they are used in society, from their relative semantics to other words and phrases…
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Review
2003
Review
2003
Embodied Cognition: A field guide
Michael L. Anderson
Artificial Intelligence
2003
Corpus ID: 7191928
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Mapping Ontologies into Cyc
Stephen L. Reed
,
D. Lenat
2002
Corpus ID: 1167931
The advent of Web services, and the Semantic Web described by domain ontologies, highlight the bottleneck to their growth…
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
An Environment for Merging and Testing Large Ontologies
D. McGuinness
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R. Fikes
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James Rice
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S. Wilder
International Conference on Principles of…
2000
Corpus ID: 5319529
Large-scale ontologies are becoming an essential component of many applications including standard search (such as Yahoo and…
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Review
1995
Review
1995
CYC: a large-scale investment in knowledge infrastructure
D. Lenat
CACM
1995
Corpus ID: 16147141
Since 1984, a person-century of effort has gone into building CYC, a universal schema of roughly 105 general concepts spanning…
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Review
1990
Review
1990
Cyc: toward programs with common sense
D. Lenat
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R. Guha
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K. Pittman
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D. Pratt
,
M. Shepherd
CACM
1990
Corpus ID: 7296269
Cyc is a bold attempt to assemble a massive knowledge base (on the order of 108 axioms) spanning human consensus knowledge. This…
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Review
1990
Review
1990
Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project
D. Lenat
,
R. Guha
1990
Corpus ID: 58781194
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
CYC: A Midterm Report
R. Guha
,
D. Lenat
The AI Magazine
1990
Corpus ID: 40627947
After explicating the need for a large commonsense knowledge base spanning human consensus knowledge, we report on many of the…
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Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
CYC: Using Common Sense Knowledge to Overcome Brittleness and Knowledge Acquisition Bottlenecks
D. Lenat
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M. Prakash
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M. Shepherd
The AI Magazine
1986
Corpus ID: 9013752
The major limitations in building large software have always been (a) its brittleness when confronted by problems that were not…
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