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OpenCyc is back and better than ever!
OpenCyc 2.0 is now
available for download from SourceForge.
You can also download OWL versions of the OpenCyc ontology,
or search for and access OpenCyc content on the semantic web, accessing Cyc concepts via their URIs,
at sw.opencyc.org.
OpenCyc
OpenCyc is the open source version of the
Cyc
technology, the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense
reasoning engine. OpenCyc can be used as the basis of a wide variety of intelligent
applications such as:
- rapid development of an ontology in a vertical area
- email prioritizing, routing, summarization, and annotating
- expert systems
- games
to name just a few.
Release 2.0 of OpenCyc includes:
- The entire Cyc ontology containing hundreds of thousands of terms,
along with millions of assertions relating the terms to each other, forming an ontology whose domain is all of human
consensus reality.
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NEW! 100,000+ "broaderTerm" assertions, in addition to the previous generalization (subclass) and instance (member) assertions, to capture additional
relations among concepts.
- English strings (a canonical one and alternatives) corresponding to each concept term, to assist with
search and display.
- The Cyc Inference Engine and the Cyc Knowledge Base Browser are now Java-based for improved performance and increased platform portability.
- Documentation and self-paced learning materials to help users
achieve a basic- to intermediate-level
understanding of the issues of knowledge
representation and application development using
Cyc.
- A specification of CycL, the language in which Cyc
(and hence OpenCyc) is written.
- A specification of the Cyc API for application development.
- Links between Cyc concepts and WordNet synsets.
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NEW Links between Cyc concepts (including predicates) and the FOAF ontology.
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NEW! Links between Cyc concepts and Wikipedia articles.
Cyc Training Available
Cycorp will be offering a three-day, hands-on Cyc introductory course in Austin, TX
as well as a two-day class covering advanced Cyc topics during May 2010 (exact dates TBD).
Click here
for additional information or contact us at
cyc101 @ cyc.com for information about customized semantic knowledge management
or ontology development training.
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OpenCyc is being considered as a standard by the IEEE. You can learn about participating in the
Standard Upper Ontology working group by visiting http://suo.ieee.org/. Anyone can become a voting member by visiting
here.
OpenCyc
development is being hosted at:
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The OpenCyc KB Browser
Visit the Cyc Foundation,
a not-for-profit organization dedicated to growing and sharing the OpenCyc ontology!
| Announcements |
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2009/07/27 -
Cycorp is pleased to announce that OpenCyc 2.0 is now available for download from SourceForge.
2009/07/27 -
Cycorp is pleased to announce the Cyc ATP Challenges at CASC-22
2008/08/18 -
Read about the release of OpenCyc semantic web endpoints and how OpenCyc Brings Meaning to the Web
2007/03/10 - A new,
simplified browser is available from
The Cyc Foundation to let you explore the contents the OpenCyc ontology.
2006/04/03 - Cyclify Austin meets on the second Thursday of each month
in Austin, TX. All members of the OpenCyc community are welcome.
For details, please send an email to opencyc@cyc.com.
2004/06/04 - The
OWL scaffolding version of OpenCyc v0.7.8b can be found here (>700MB). This file contains #$isa, #$genls and
#$comment assertions for over 60,000 Cyc constants. Caution: This file takes approximately 9 hours to load into Protege.
2004/03/26 - The
OWL version of OpenCyc v0.6.0b can be found here.
2001/06/07 - The
CycML schema document can be found here.
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