Open Mind Common Sense
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Open Mind Common Sense is an artificial intelligence project based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab whose goal is to build and utilize a large common sense knowledge base from the contributions of many thousands of people across the Web. Since its founding in 1999, it has accumulated more than 850,000 English facts from over 15,000 contributors in addition to knowledge bases in other languages. The knowledge collected by Open Mind Common Sense has enabled dozens of research projects at [MIT] and elsewhere. The ConceptNet and LifeNet commonsense knowledge bases are derived from parsing the collected data.
The project was the brainchild of Marvin Minsky, Push Singh, and others. Push Singh was slated to become a professor at the MIT Media Lab to lead the Commonsense computing group in 2007 until his suicide on Tuesday, February 28, 2006.
Other similar projects include Mindpixel, Cyc, Open Heart Treasures and Open Mind 1001 Questions, which have explored alternative approaches to collecting knowledge and providing incentive for participation.
The Open Mind Common Sense project differs from Cyc because it focused on representing the common sense knowledge it collected as English sentences, rather than using a formal logical structure.
ConceptNet is similar to the Cyc knowledgebase, though is structured more like WordNet, due to its "emphasis on informal conceptual-connectedness over formal linguistic-rigor"[1] The information didn't use a standardized vocabulary with strict definitions for each component of the common sense knowledge.
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[edit] References
- ^ "The ConceptNet Project V2.1". http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/conceptnet/index.html. Retrieved on 2008-12-17.
[edit] External links
- Open Mind Common Sense
- ConceptNet
- AnalogySpace
- The Divisi inference toolkit
- Commonsense Computing Initiative's Webpage
- The Open Mind Initiative
- Learner 2.5 -- a Game of Knowledge
- OMCSNetCPP - Open source C++ inference engine using the OMCSNet data
- Open Heart Treasures collects users common sense on happiness
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