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From: wow@lgc.com (--[ wally ]--)
Subject: Re: common sense / world knowledge research
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>I've heard that there is a big research project under way to identify
>and store all the common sense and general world knowledge that we
>bring to a conversation and that allows us to make sense of what is
>said. .....

>My question is - does anyone know who is doing this research, how far
>they've got, and if there are any references to this work.

I think you are referring to the CYC project at MCC in Austin, Texas
being done by Doug Lenat.

Work seems to be going ok.  There are reports from time to time in
different places that I cant recall offhand: a recent one was
in the Communications of the ACM ???

-Wally

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