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From: damon@upba.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Doug Lenat's "cyc" project
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> Does anyone familiar with "cyc" want to comment?
> My feeling is that someone is going to build an artificial
> mind sooner or later, and cyc is a plausible first step.

Cyc is described in pretty good detail in the book "Building Large
Knowledge-Based Systems; Representation and Inference in the
Cyc Project" by Douglas B. Lenat and R. V. Guha.  Published
by Addison-Wesley.  I picked my copy up in the local university
book store.

Cyc is an attempt to build a large knowledge base of "common sense"
information.  A seperate project is attempting to build a
natural language interface which can draw on the knowledge
base to resolve ambiguity.  I believe the current interface
project members are using is a windowed "knowledge editor".

Damon Scaggs
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