[comp.ai] pointers to CYC

choueiry@disuns2.epfl.ch (Berthe Yazid Choueiry) (03/08/91)

Hello,

My lab is looking for pointers to Lenat's work on CYC. TR, papers, ftp'able
reports,  books?

Thank you for your help.

	-Berthe Y. Choueiry


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dahl@bcstec.boeing.com (Mark Dahl) (03/09/91)

In article <1991Mar8.094757@disuns2.epfl.ch>, choueiry@disuns2.epfl.ch (Berthe Yazid Choueiry) writes:
> My lab is looking for pointers to Lenat's work on CYC. TR, papers, ftp'able
> reports,  books?

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.

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