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Cyc

Cyc

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A long research project that teaches computers common sense knowledge
  • proper noun
  • /saɪk/
  • Specialized
: Cyc
  • Examples of such grammars are CYC (Lenat and Guha 1990) and Ontolingua (Gruber 1993).

Examples

  • The Cyc project aims to enable computers to use common sense reasoning by encoding general human knowledge.

  • Another very famous attempt to build up a large commonsense ontology and knowledge base is the Cyc project (Lenat 1995), started in 1984 and currently still being developed and supported.

    Academic text (2017)

  • You know, the closest and this is the* is the CYC psych system.

  • So what's going on with the CYC, this Cy without AC domain?

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    The Joker is Wild (1957)

  • Doug Lenat's decades-long effort to create a large commonsense knowledge base, CYC, led to some interesting applications and insights (Lenat et al. 1990) and has been licensed to Lucid (Knight 2016).

    Academic text (2017)

  • Researchers have spent decades developing the Cyc system to enhance artificial intelligence capabilities.

  • Cyc is considered one of the most ambitious attempts to create a comprehensive commonsense knowledge base.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Cyc comes from encyclopedia, a word that means 'a book of knowledge'. The project is like a computer 'encyclopedia' of everyday, common-sense facts, so the name reminds us it tries to give machines the knowledge people know about the world.