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In this paper we present details of our experience of integrating a lightweight information agent, designed to retrieve sports match results from web sites, with Cyc, a huge knowledge base and reasoning engine. Placing an information agent into a large ontology requires careful planning and non-trivial overhead. Once integrated, however, a synergy occurs as the existing knowledge in the ontology is brought to bear on the new information provided. We explore the effects of moving knowledge from the heuristic-based information agent into the massive Cyc knowledge base, with the goal of providing Cyc the means of generating new information agents to retrieve new information as required.
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Lister, K., Sterling, L. (2014). Integrating a Lightweight Information Agent with the Cyc Knowledge Base. In: Dershowitz, N., Nissan, E. (eds) Language, Culture, Computation. Computing - Theory and Technology. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8001. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45321-2_12
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