18 Sep 2004
CS 5244: Semantic Web
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CYC and the Semantic Web
¡One
company
¡Centralized
¡First-order
logic
¡Complex
KR language
¡Authoritative
data
¡Many
companies
¡Distributed
¡Left up
to agent
¡Simple
KR language
¡Noisy data
Will
this work? No one’s sure.
Proponents say its just a matter of time. Naysayers say we are revisiting the fundamental KR problems. BTW,
CYCorp has put their
ontology into the SW developmental efforts.