From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 13:43:43 MDT
Interesting! I haven't heard anything about CYC for a while and I was starting to
worry the entire thing was a failure. It seems to me that even if it's not the key to
AI CYC could be very useful in translation and speech recognition. I think the
trouble was that up to now programs had no idea what the words it heard
meant, I'll bet even a human would be wrong at least 10% of the time in
distinguishing between "I scream" and "ice cream" if he didn't have other
words in a sentence like "whenever I see a rat I scream" to provide context
and give clues. When a program can hear the words "this book has been red,
but now it's painted blue" and know I meant "red" not "read" I'll be impressed.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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