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The Full Power of Cyc ...
As of Release 1.0, the complete (non-proprietary) content of the
Cyc knowledge base is being made available to the research community (for research-only purposes) under a
ResearchCyc license. Yes, Cyc, the world's largest and
most complete general knowledge base and commonsense
reasoning engine, is at your disposal!
The Cyc Platform
Cyc can be used
as the basis for a wide variety of intelligent
applications such as :
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information extraction and concept tagging
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content/knowledge management
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business intelligence
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support of analysis tasks
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semantic database integration
natural language understanding and generation
rapid ontology and taxonomy development
learning and knowledge acquisition
game AIs
decision supports and workflow management
filtering, prioritizing, routing, summarization, and
annotating of electronic communications
to name just a few.
The latest release of Cyc includes:
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60,000+ 300,000+
concepts, forming an ontology in the domain of human
consensus reality.
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Nearly 3,000,000 assertions (facts
and rules), using 26,000+ relations,
that interrelate, constrain, and, in effect,
(partially) define the concepts.
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A compiled version of the Cyc Inference Engine and the Cyc
Knowledge Base Browser.
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Natural language parsers and CycL-to-English
generation functions.
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New! --> A natural language query tool, enabling
users to specify powerful, flexible queries without the need to understand formal logic
or complex knowledge representations.
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New! --> A template-based Fact Entry Tool
that makes it easy to enter information into the knowlege base using natural language.
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New! --> An Ontology Exporter that makes
it simple to export specified portions of the knowledge base to OWL files.
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Documentation and self-paced learning materials to help users
achieve a basic- to intermediate-level
understanding of the issues of knowledge
representation and application development using
Cyc.
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A specification of CycL, the language in which Cyc
(and hence ResearchCyc) is written. There are
CycL-to-Lisp, CycL-to-C, etc. translators.
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A specification of the Cyc API, by calling which a
programmer can build an ResearchCyc application.
If you already have a ResearchCyc license, see ResearchCyc
Releases for information about downloading the latest release of Cyc.
To apply for a no cost ResearchCyc license, click here.
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| Announcements |
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2007/08/27 - Cyc 101, a three-day, hands-on introduction to Cyc, will
be held in Austin, TX from October 24-26, 2007. Click
here for additional information.
2006/06/29 - Release 1.0 of ResearchCyc, for both Linux and Windows platforms, is now available to licensed
ResearchCyc users. This release features a greatly expanded knowledge base as well as some powerful new tools.
2006/04/17 - The Cyc Foundation is a newly formed nonprofit organization that is
assuming stewardship of the Cyc structural ontology. For more information, visit
www.cycfoundation.org
2006/01/16 - The OpenCyc Interest Group of Austin, a.k.a. #$Cyclify-Austin, meets
on the second Thursday of each month in Austin. All members of the OpenCyc/ResearchCyc community are welcome.
For details, please send an email to
johnd @ cycfoundation.org.
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