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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: MISTIC: 350,008 Item Pairs
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Jim Balter <jqb@netcom.com> writes:
>Christopher McKinstry wrote:
>> MISTIC (Minimum Intelligent Signal Test Item Corpus)
>> http://www.clickable.com/mist_corpus.html has passed 350,000 item pairs
>> as of March 22, 1997.
>> The MIST Item Corpus Project is the largest (in terms of participants)
>> Artificial Intelligence project in human history.
>And the least intelligent.
>> Beds can be used to sit on. :true
>> All dimensions of a container must be considered to dermine its volume.
>> :true

     Well, the "Cyc" database is rather like that, although better
organized for machine processing.

					John Nagle
