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From: seim@tubopal.UUCP (Kai Seim)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Cyc
Summary: Think before talking
Keywords: a short reference
Message-ID: <1713@drjur.tubopal.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 90 15:09:34 GMT
Reply-To: seim@tubopal.UUCP (Kai Seim)
Distribution: comp.ai
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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i have to say, that i'm bored by the discussion about Cyc. The first
problem seems to be, that the most people don't exactly know, what the
hell they are doing there. So it was good, that somebody (forgot the name)
posted a reference to an article in CACM. The problem is, that the most
informatic-engineers can't cite correct, i didn't found the article, but...

i found a book:

Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems -
Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project.

Douglas B. Lenat
R.V. Guha

Copyright 1990, Addison-Wesley

I only took a short look, but i would say, that i will not read it. They
talk, e.g. about "representation" without discussing the philosophical
background. That's unacceptable, i think.

Greetings, Kai




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Kai Seim
Technische Universitaet Berlin                  University of Technology
Fachbereich Informatik                          Dept. of Computer Science
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