The High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) was a
DARPA
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the Adva ...
research program to advance the technology of how computers acquire, represent and manipulate knowledge. The successor of the HPKB project was the
Rapid Knowledge Formation (RKF) 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:
# Integrators
# Technology developers
# Challenge problem developers
See also
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Knowledge base
In computer science, a knowledge base (KB) is a set of sentences, each sentence given in a knowledge representation language, with interfaces to tell new sentences and to ask questions about what is known, where either of these interfaces migh ...
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Cyc
Cyc (pronounced ) is a long-term artificial intelligence (AI) project that aims to assemble a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base that spans the basic concepts and rules about how the world works. Hoping to capture common sense knowledge ...
- commercial knowledge base
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OpenCyc -
Open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...
version of Cyc
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Electronic Directory Research (EDR) - Japanese large knowledge base effort
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Project Halo - Ultimate successor project
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Rapid Knowledge Formation (RKF)- follow-on project
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SUMO
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- Suggested Upper Merged Ontology
* Wikipedia - example of large knowledge base that is not yet semantically parsable
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WordNet
WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into ''synsets'' with short definitions and usage examples. It can thu ...
- a
semantic network
A semantic network, or frame network is a knowledge base that represents semantic relations between concepts in a network. This is often used as a form of knowledge representation. It is a directed or undirected graph consisting of vertices, ...
of words, terms used in the
English language
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External links
DARPA HPKB Home Page
* Cohen, P., Schrag, R., Jones, E., Pease, A., Lin, A., Starr, B., Gunning, D. and Burke, M
DARPA High-Performance Knowledge Bases ProjectAI Magazine Volume 19 Number 4 (1998)
References
Web Intelligence: First Asia-Pacific Conference, Wi 2001, Maebashi City, Japan, October 23–26, by N Zhong, Y Yao, J Liu
DARPA
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