18 Sep 2004
CS 5244: Semantic Web
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This is great, why didn’t we think of it sooner?!?
¡As a community, we have been trying:
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lDoug Lenat spun off a company to try to capture commonsense knowledge in a huge knowledge representation project.
¡1,000,000 assertions captured.
¡Cyc knows that trees are usually outdoors, that once people die they stop buying things, and that glasses of liquid should be carried right-side-up.
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¡What’s different about the Semantic Web?