CyC and PowerLoom

Rich,

just to clarify your assertions: PowerLoom should be able to load and
reason with OpenCyc (given appropriate translation), but we haven't
had an opportunity to play with that yet.  Past connections to Cyc
were done differently, where Cyc knowledge from a full Cyc version was
translated and paged in on demand.  We also haven't worked directly
with WordNet, however, ISI's Omega ontology which is partly based on
WordNet is (or at least was at some point) supported by a specialized
PowerLoom backend that leverages a relational DB (see http://omega.isi.edu/).

I haven't really looked at the OpenCyc release in detail, but with respect to
reasoning, both engines should give you fairly similar capabilities.
PowerLoom might be somewhat more light-weight and maybe more easily
integratable as part of a larger application.

Hans

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>>>>> Rich Morin <[email protected]> writes:

> I gather that the OpenCyC folks have integrated WordNet into
> their offerings.  At the same time, I gather that PowerLoom
> supports both OpenCyC and WordNet as knowledge bases.

> I'd like to understand the general differences between the
> capabilities of the OpenCyC and PowerLoom knowledge engines
> in dealing with these knowledge bases.  That is, what kinds
> of things can one, the other, and both engines be expected
> to do?

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