The Cyc Knowledge Base was one of the three technologies that participated in Halo Phase I. We extended our deductive inference engine to cover the types of questions found in Advanced Placement (High School) chemistry examinations, and formatted the (NL Generated) justifications for the human examiner. We placed a close third out of the three competing technologies. The version of OpenCyc that was used can be downloaded from http://www.projecthalo.com .
-Steve On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Pei Wang wrote: > From http://www.projecthalo.com/ : "Project Halo is a staged research effort > by Vulcan Inc. towards the development of a Digital Aristotle, an > application capable of producing user and domain-appropriate answers and > justifications to novel (previously unseen) questions in an ever-growing > number of domains." > > Also see http://www.vulcan.com/press/release_detail.asp?recNo=1862 for a > press release. > > Ben may be interested in what mentioned in > http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/126622_vulcan14.html : "Now Project > Halo is into Phase II, selecting new companies to participate in making it > simpler -- simple enough for non-computer scientists -- to create knowledge > bases and the questions that interrogate them." > Pei > > > > > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- =========================================================== Stephen L. Reed phone: 512.342.4036 Cycorp, Suite 100 fax: 512.342.4040 3721 Executive Center Drive email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austin, TX 78731 web: http://www.cyc.com download OpenCyc at http://www.opencyc.org =========================================================== ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
