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RE: rememberance agents

There is a very small piece of the knowledge base free for download:

http://www.cyc.com/public.html

Cycorp welcomes you to its first major public release: approximately 3,000
terms capturing the most
general concepts of human consensus reality. We refer to this as the "upper
CYC® ontology." The
full CYC® knowledge base (KB) includes a vast structure of more specific
concepts descending
below this upper level. Over the past dozen years, we have also entered into
CYC® literally millions
of logical axioms -- rules and other assertions -- which specify constraints
on the individual objects
and classes found in the real world. Further specializations have been
developed for our customers,
especially in recent years, driven by their application needs. Thus, *****
only a few percent **** of Cyc's terms appears in this release (and with
only a small portion of their content). Later on, on the next page, we give
a more detailed list of the parts of CYC® omitted from this public release.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. Paul McCarty [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 1998 12:17 PM
> To: Omar Jenkins
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: rememberance agents
>
>
> This also looks really good, but it doesn't look like there is a freely
> available distribution to download and play with.  Or is there a free
> distribution out there somewhere that I missed?
>
> -Paul
>
> R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator /  / x52059
> 317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
> Computers don't make errors; what they do, they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH
>
> On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Omar Jenkins wrote:
>
> > A week or two ago I was reading some AI books and one of them
> talked about
> > a system called Cyc which did pretty much the same thing youare talking
> > about(reading stuff and making connections between all the information)
> > The official site for it is http://www.cyc.com  or you could try searing
> > Yahoo for 'cyc' to get other infromation.
> >
> > On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, R. Paul McCarty wrote:
> >
> > > It's like talking to a five year old, but its pretty neat. I
> also want to
> > > be able to give it text files to read and learn, but it needs
> some extra
> > > functionality to do this, like recognizing pronoun
> references, and being
> > > able to parse more complex statements, etc.
> > >
> > > If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > -Paul
> >
> > {Omar Jenkins class of 1998     |"The more you study, the more
> you know,  }
> > {SystemAdministrator & WebMaster| the more you know, the more
> you forget, }
> > {Montgomery Blair High School   | the more you forget, the less
> you know."}
> > {<>            |           ??So Why Study??
>           }
> >
>

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