Accessible Research Cyc

Abstract

The goal of this project was to produce a knowledge base (named ResearchCyc) and to modularize the Cyc knowledge base so that researchers could make use of just the ontology, or part of the ontology, or the knowledge base (KB), or part of the KB, or the inference engine, or just some heuristic level (HL) modules from the inference engine. Moreover, the goal included the capability for software power tools to provide machine-assisted (i.e., semi-automatic) mapping between Cyc's ontology and a non-Cyc ontology. The capability was aimed at dramatically increased usability (including stability) and modularity of Cyc, leading to widespread use of ResearchCyc by the R&D community. Another task involved a seedling effort to lay the groundwork for a Bootstrapped Learning initiative. This report also describes the results of the Bootstrapped Learning Seedling effort.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA473356

Entities

People

  • Jon Curtis
  • Larry Lefkowitz
  • Michael Witbrock

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Formal Languages
  • Governments
  • Inference Engines
  • Instructors
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Ontologies
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agricultural Chemistry/Soil Science
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Information Retrieval