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 Adv ...
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
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(RKF) project.
The primary results of the HPKB project was to focus further research on the
Knowledge acquisition bottleneck
Knowledge can be defined as awareness of facts or as practical skills, and may also refer to familiarity with objects or situations. Knowledge of facts, also called propositional knowledge, is often defined as true belief that is distinc ...
problem.
HPKB was divided programmatically into three groups:
# Integrators
# Technology developers
# Challenge problem developers
See also
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Knowledge base
A knowledge base (KB) is a technology used to store complex structured and unstructured information used by a computer system. The initial use of the term was in connection with expert systems, which were the first knowledge-based systems.
Ori ...
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Cyc
Cyc (pronounced ) is a long-term artificial intelligence 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, Cyc fo ...
- commercial knowledge base
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OpenCyc
Cyc (pronounced ) is a long-term artificial intelligence 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, Cyc fo ...
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Open Source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
version of Cyc
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Electronic Directory Research
Electronic may refer to:
*Electronics, the science of how to control electric energy in semiconductor
* ''Electronics'' (magazine), a defunct American trade journal
*Electronic storage, the storage of data using an electronic device
*Electronic co ...
(EDR) - Japanese large knowledge base effort
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Project Halo
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- Ultimate successor project
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Rapid Knowledge Formation
Rapids are sections of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient, causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence.
Rapids are hydrological features between a ''run'' (a smoothly flowing part of a stream) and a ''cascade''. ...
(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 in more than 200 languages. WordNet links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into '' synsets'' with short definition ...
- 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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