YKY,
> > Example of a commonsense fact: "apples are red" > > Example of a commonsense rule: "if X is female X has an above-average > chance of having long hair" > > Cyc already has loads of these rules. If you have a problem with Cyc's format, I **strongly** suggest that you first play around with writing scripts to translate Cyc's knowledge base into a format you like better. This would almost surely be vastly easier than re-coding a comparable amount of knowledge!! Also, if you think what Cyc is missing is fuzziness (they already have probabilistic uncertainty) then surely it would be easier to just add your desired style of fuzziness to Cyc rather than to create a whole new knowledge base. I am aware that Cyc is incomplete. And, I tend to think that encoding a lot of knowledge by hand is the wrong approach for AGI anyway. Quite apart from my interest in embodiment, I think you'd do better off to focus on acquiring relationships via NLP than via human manual encoding. However, if you **are** going to try to accumulate a manually-encoded KB, it seems clear you'd be MUCH better off to build atop Cyc rather than throwing it out and starting over!! Take a look at SUMO. It's nicer than Cyc, but way smaller. IMHO they would have done better to start by writing scripts to cast Cyc into SUMO-like form, and then impose additional SUMO-like structure on this. However, I suppose there were commercial issues there: SUMO was developed by Teknowledge, a competitor of Cycorp ... -- Ben G ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
