I agree with everything you said, and we at the Cyc Foundation are working to fix the accessibility problem.
The Cyc Foundation is a new independent non-profit org. I worked at Cycorp for 7 years before forming the Foundation with a co-founder that has a totally outside perspective. We're very optimistic about the progress being made. We've got about 2 dozen people helping so far, and that's before we've made anything available (such as the Web game we're working on) that will allow for much broader involvement.
Listen in on our Skypecast tonight (every Thursday night) at 9:30pm EST. Look for it on the list of scheduled Skypecasts at skype.org. You can participate if you have a USB microphone or headset.
Cyc does need to collect massive data with the help of people and other smart programs (parse that however you like).
The Cyc Foundation, a new independent non-profit org, has been working for several months on a game for collecting knowledge, but we will need your help. You can help now by working on game interfaces and/or programming. Or you can help later by playing the game.
Listen in on our Skypecast tonight (every Thursday night) at 9:30pm EST. Look for it on the list of scheduled Skypecasts at skype.org.
We are starting to mine Wikipedia at the Cyc Foundation (cycfoundation.org, sorry not much of a website yet), which is an independent non-profit org that's working closely with Cycorp. We're managing the growth of the public knowledge base. Linking Wikipedia article titles to Cyc concepts is one of the first things we're doing. That will grow the set of concepts, and it will also create a way to browse and search Wikipedia conceptually, such as letting you look for a list of all articles about parks west of the Rockies that contain bears.
We're also working on creating Semantic Web compatible URIs for the all of the Cyc terms.
Anyone who wants to join the Cyc Foundation can contact me: johndcyc at cycfoundation.org. Check the schedule of Skypecasts at Skype.org. We can add you to the chat, but you probably won't be allowed to talk UNLESS you have a USB microphone or headset.
You can also listen in on our Skypecast tonight. It's every Thursday at 9:30pm EST, 8:30 CST.
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Yes, we are. It will probably be published next week. OWL, specifically.
You're still going to find it very difficult. The news it the release of the content in the knowledge base, not the tools.
We're working on better tools and accessibility at the Cyc Foundation. Please don't get disenchanted all over again by existing tools.
We plan to exploit the N-grams in our knowledge collection work at the Cyc Foundation.
:-), you can join our Skypecast tonight.
If you hadn't seen me mention it already
I agree with everything you said, and we at the Cyc Foundation are working to fix the accessibility problem.
The Cyc Foundation is a new independent non-profit org. I worked at Cycorp for 7 years before forming the Foundation with a co-founder that has a totally outside perspective. We're very optimistic about the progress being made. We've got about 2 dozen people helping so far, and that's before we've made anything available (such as the Web game we're working on) that will allow for much broader involvement.
Listen in on our Skypecast tonight (every Thursday night) at 9:30pm EST. Look for it on the list of scheduled Skypecasts at skype.org. You can participate if you have a USB microphone or headset.
Cyc does need to collect massive data with the help of people and other smart programs (parse that however you like).
The Cyc Foundation, a new independent non-profit org, has been working for several months on a game for collecting knowledge, but we will need your help. You can help now by working on game interfaces and/or programming. Or you can help later by playing the game.
Listen in on our Skypecast tonight (every Thursday night) at 9:30pm EST. Look for it on the list of scheduled Skypecasts at skype.org.
We are starting to mine Wikipedia at the Cyc Foundation (cycfoundation.org, sorry not much of a website yet), which is an independent non-profit org that's working closely with Cycorp. We're managing the growth of the public knowledge base. Linking Wikipedia article titles to Cyc concepts is one of the first things we're doing. That will grow the set of concepts, and it will also create a way to browse and search Wikipedia conceptually, such as letting you look for a list of all articles about parks west of the Rockies that contain bears.
We're also working on creating Semantic Web compatible URIs for the all of the Cyc terms.
Anyone who wants to join the Cyc Foundation can contact me: johndcyc at cycfoundation.org.
Check the schedule of Skypecasts at Skype.org. We can add you to the chat, but you probably won't be allowed to talk UNLESS you have a USB microphone or headset.
You can also listen in on our Skypecast tonight. It's every Thursday at 9:30pm EST, 8:30 CST.