choueiry@disuns2.epfl.ch (Berthe Yazid Choueiry) (03/12/91)
Hi,
I would like to thank all those who generously responded to my request
about pointers to Lenat's work on CYC. Sorry for not sending individual
replies.
Here follows a summary of the e-mail messages I received up to March 12,
1991
11:30 (swiss time, :-) )
-Berthe Y. Choueiry
AI Lab, Dept of CS, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
e-mail : choueiry@eldi.epfl.ch
choueiry@liasun1.epfl.ch
voice: +41-21-693 52 77
fax: +41-21-693 52 25
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From robinson@prism.gatech.edu Fri Mar 8 15:43:58 1991
Organization: Georgia Tech Computer Science, AI Group
Guha and Lenat, 1990. Cyc: A midtem report, AI Magazine, Fall 1990
Guha, 1990 "Contexts in CYC," TR ACT-CYC-129-90, MCC Corp, Austin TX
Guha, 1990 "The Representation of Defaults in CYC, TR ACT-CYC-083-90, MCC Corp
Guha and Lenat, 1989. Cycl: The CYC Representation Language, Part 3, TR
ACT-CYC-454-89, MCC Corp
Guha and Lenat, 1989. The World According to CYC, Part2: Agents and
Institutions, TR
ACT-CYC-453-89, MCC Corp
Guha and Levy, 1990. A Relevance-based Meta Level, TR ACT-CYC-040-90, MCC Corp
Lenat and Guha, 1990. Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems, Addison-Wesley:
Reading, MA
Lenat, Prakash, Shepard, 1986. Cyc: Using Common Sense Knowledge to Overcome
Brittleness and Knowledge-Acquisition Bottlenecks, AI Magazine 6:65-85.
Lenat, et al, 1990. Cyc: Toward Programs with Common Sense. CACM 33(8).
I don't know if there are any ftp'able papers. Hope there aren't many
typos above....
--
Stephen M. Robinson, AI Group, College of Computing 404-853-9381
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280
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From: "gary@enuxha.eas.asu.edu" 8-MAR-1991 21:24:44.42
I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but there was an article on
Cyc in AI Magazine Fall 1990. It was a good introduction, but didn't
have a lot of specifics. It did have many references to articles,books,
and tech. reports done on the Cyc project so far, so it will at least
serve as a useful bibliography. Good luck!
Kevin Gary
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From: "teskridg@NMSU.Edu" 8-MAR-1991 18:11:25.30
Lenat & Gupta have a new book out on cyc called "building large common sense
reasoning blah blah ..." or something like that. Lots of detail on the
representation language. Published by addison-wesley.
Also, the Communications of the ACM had a couple articles by Lenat's group a
month or two ago. You may try there.
Good Luck
tom eskridge
computing research laboratory, new mexico state university
teskridg@nmsu.edu (505) 646-6247
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In article <724@bcstec.boeing.com>, dahl@bcstec.boeing.com (Mark Dahl) writes:
Hope this helps. Sorry, too lazy to type authors.
Most prominent were R. V. Guha, Mary Shepherd, and
of course, Douglas Lenat.
BOOKS & TECHNICAL REPORTS:
"Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems", DB Lenat, RV Guha.
Reading Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
"Contexts in Cyc,"
Technical Report ACT-CYC-129-90, MCC Corp., Austin Texas.
"An Epistemological Level Interface for Cyc,"
Technical Report ACT-CYC-084-90, MCC Corp., Austin Texas
"The Representations of Defaults in Cyc,"
Technical Report ACT-CYC-083-90, MCC Corp., Austin Texas
"A Functional Interface for CYC,"
Technical Report ACT-CYC-089-90, MCC Corp., Austin Texas.
"Cycl: The Cyc Representation Language, Part 3,"
Technical Report ACT-CYC-454-89, MCC Corp., Austin Texas.
"The world according to CYC, Part 2: Agents and
Institutions," (close to 1st book listed above)
Technical Report ACT-CYC-453-89, MCC Corp., Austin Texas.
"A Relevance-Based Meta Level,"
Technical Report ACT-CYC-0450-90, MCC Corp., Austin Texas.
JOURNALS/PROCEEDINGS:
"Cyc: A Mid-Term Report," AI Magazine, Fall, 1990
"Cyc: toward programs with common sense," CACM, Aug 1990.
"Knowledge and Natural Language Processing," CACM, Aug 1990.
"When will machines learn?," Machine Learning, Dec 1989.
"Ontological versus knowledge engineering," IEEE Trans. on
Knowledge and Data Engineering, March 1989.
"Correction to 'Ontological versus knowledge engineering'",
IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Sept 1989.
"Engineering CYC's ontology," International Symposium on
Electronic Dictionaries, Nov 1988 (conference proceedings).
"On the Thresholds of Knowledge," Proceedings of the
International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for
Industrial Applications: IEEE AI 1988.
"Toward Encyclopedic Intelligence,"
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science,
Oct-Nov 1988.
"A visual representation for knowledge structures",
SIGCHI Bulletin, Nov 1989.
"Tools for adding knowledge to the CYC Large Scale Knowledge Base,"
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Artificial
Intelligence for Industrial Applications: IEEE AI 1988.
"Cyc: Using Common Sense Knowledge to Overcome Brittleness and
Knowledge Acquisition Bottleneck," AI Magazine, Vol 6, No 4 (1986).
"Computer software for intelligent systems,"
Scientific American, Sept 1984.
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE:
"Common sense and the computer..." Discover, August 1990.
"A machine with a mind of its own..." Insight, Dec 3, 1990.
"Brain trusts..." Omni, June 1988.
--
Mark Dahl Boeing Computer Services Renton, Washington
Scientific Data Systems - AI Specialist
dahl@bcstec.boeing.com
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From tyg@caen.engin.umich.edu Sat Mar 9 02:49:12 1991
> ...
>Anyway, there are several possibilities for CYC info. The main one is a
book by
>him and Guha which came out last year. I think it was from
Addison-Wesley, but
>I'm not sure. If no one else responds with it, I can look up more
information
>on it. One which I'm 99% sure you have is the article in AI Magazine
last year.
>
>It's doubtful that there are any ftpable reports due to MCCs status as
a
>corporate conglomeration research lab. However, I picked up a batch of
tech
>reports from there last summer when in Austin for the Machine Learning
>Conference and if all else fails I could get them copied and mailed
over.
>
>The best bet for checking on direct tech reports is probably to email
MCC
>directly. Lenat's address is ai.lenat@mcc.com. When I emailed that
address to
>ask about summer job possibilities, I got back a reply from a Judy
Bowman at
>ai.judy@mcc.com, who I'd guess is his secretary and so might be better
to mail
>about tech report availability.
>
>Tom Galloway
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From: "havener@Kodak.COM" 11-MAR-1991 18:48:29.40
> CYC is under active development at MCC (The US 5th Generation
> Project) in Austin Texas. Many of the technical areports on
> CYC are non-restricted and publically available.
>
> You can request information via e-mail from the address below.
> Good luck.
>
> MCC consulting/information email address: "ask@mcc.com"
> Another contact: Dan Simchuck "Simchuck@mcc.com"
>
> MCC - Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation
> (A consortium of many US companies - Kodak is a founding member)
> 3500 West Balcones Center Drive
> Austin Texas 78759-6509
> phone (512)338-3318 (Simchuck's number)
>
> -John
>
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