High Performance Knowledge Bases

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The High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) was a DARPA research program to advance the technology of how computers acquire, represent and manipulate knowledge. The successor of the HPKB project was the Rapid Knowledge Formulation 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:

1. Integrators
2. Technology developers
3. Challenge problem developers

[edit] See also

• Knowledge base
• Cyc - commercial knowledge base
• OpenCyc - Open Source version of Cyc
• Electronic Directory Research (EDR) - Japanese large knowledge base effort
• Rapid Knowledge Formulation - follow-on project
• SUMO - Shared Upper Merged Ontology
• Wikipedia - example of large knowledge base that is not yet semantically parse-able
• WordNet - a semantic network of words, terms used in the English language

[edit] External links

• [1] DARPA HPKB Home Page

[edit] References

Web Intelligence: First Asia-Pacific Conference, Wi 2001, Maebashi City, Japan, October 23-26, by N Zhong, Y Yao, J Liu