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The High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) was a DARPA research program to advance the technology of how computers acquire, represent and manipulate knowledge. The successor of the HPKB project was the Rapid Knowledge Formulation project.

The primary results of the HPKB project was to focus further research on the Knowledge acquisition bottleneck problem.

HPKB was divided programmatically into three groups:
  1. Integrators
  2. Technology developers
  3. Challenge problem developers

See also

  • Knowledge base
  • Cyc - commercial knowledge base
  • OpenCyc - Open Source version of Cyc
  • Electronic Directory Research (EDR) - Japanese large knowledge base effort
  • Rapid Knowledge Formulation - follow-on project
  • SUMO - Shared Upper Merged Ontology
  • Wikipedia - example of large knowledge base that is not yet semantically parse-able
  • WordNet - a semantic network of words, terms used in the English language

External links

References

Web Intelligence: First Asia-Pacific Conference, Wi 2001, Maebashi City, Japan, October 23-26, by N Zhong, Y Yao, J Liu
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Agency overview
Formed 1958

Employees 240
Annual Budget $3.2 billion

Agency Executive Anthony J. Tether, Director

Website
www.darpa.
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A knowledge base (or knowledgebase; abbreviated KB, kb or Δ) is a special kind of database for knowledge management. It provides the means for the computerized collection, organization, and retrieval of knowledge.
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Cyc is an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and database of everyday common sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning.
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Cyc is an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and database of everyday common sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning.
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Open source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the design and production of goods and knowledge. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property
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Sumo (相撲)

A Sumo match between Ozeki Kaio and Tamanoshima in May 2005. Notice the referee (gyoji) at right.
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WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short, general definitions, and records the various semantic relations between these synonym sets.
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A semantic network is often used as a form of knowledge representation. It is a directed graph consisting of vertices, which represent concepts, and edges, which represent semantic relations between the concepts.
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Writing system: Latin (English variant) 
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
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