RE: Project Earth

[email protected] (Lee Goddard) wrote:

>>The objective of Project Earth is to build a database of factual information
>>relevant to any aspect of life by collating voluntary contributions made by
>>project participants.
>
>Does anyone remember the name of the project that tried to
>program a database with the equivelant knowledge of a three
>year-old child?  It's still running, after I think 30 years.

One should have a look at MindNet, from Microsoft.  It's a similar
project, but instead of needing hand-entered facts, it gets facts by
reading dictionaries.  Since Microsoft already had big natural language
parsers (the grammar checker in Word), it was natural to re-use them for
reading dictionaries.


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