Re: how much knowledge

"rick++" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> The oxford english dictionary has something like 2.4 million word
> usages.
> That doesnt include technical definitions nor those present in
> non-English languages.
> An educated person may only a know 2-3 hundred thousand of these
> meanings.
>
> The CYC project (www.cyc.com) is probably the most ambitious 20-year
> attempt
> to capture concepts in a computer. It organizes these in several ways
> including fact-like and inference-like techniques. I see the phrase
> "hundreds of thousands of assertions" in their web description.
> And still users complain of gaps.

Those that complain should do just what the Cyc program is designated to
enable.

Get the top ontologies fro Cycorp and create their own domain-specific
ontologies.