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by terra_t
5765 days ago
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Cyc failed because it succeeded. Doug Lenat was able to run a very good business (hiring about 50 people for 10+ years) running about 50% off government contracts, about 50% off sales to big companies that could use better KB management tools that his competitors had. Cyc didn't need to change the world in order to succeed, so it didn't change the world. That said, the fundamental trouble in NLP is the lack of common-sense knowledge. The proper word-sensing of pen in "the pig is in the pen" vs "the ink is in the pen" is a matter of semantics, not syntax. You can do Noam Chomsky stuff until you're blue in the face and it will get you nowhere... But then some stupid Markov Chain comes along that conflates syntax and semantics and beats it. |
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