Integrating a Lightweight Information Agent with the Cyc Knowledge Base

In this paper we present details of our experience of integrating a lightweight information agent, designed to retrieve sports match results from web sites, with Cyc, a huge knowledge base and reasoning engine. Placing an information agent into a large ontology requires careful planning and non-triv...

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Published inLanguage, Culture, Computation. Computing - Theory and Technology pp. 225 - 251
Main Authors Lister, Kendall, Sterling, Leon
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Cyc
Information agent
knowledge
ontology
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Summary:In this paper we present details of our experience of integrating a lightweight information agent, designed to retrieve sports match results from web sites, with Cyc, a huge knowledge base and reasoning engine. Placing an information agent into a large ontology requires careful planning and non-trivial overhead. Once integrated, however, a synergy occurs as the existing knowledge in the ontology is brought to bear on the new information provided. We explore the effects of moving knowledge from the heuristic-based information agent into the massive Cyc knowledge base, with the goal of providing Cyc the means of generating new information agents to retrieve new information as required.
ISBN:9783642453205
3642453201
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-45321-2_12