Cycorp, Inc., a leading provider of semantic web technologies, recently introduced a vast open-source knowledge base of concepts for the Web and a commonsense reasoning engine, OpenCyc. Using OpenCyc terms to represent Web content enables true semantic interoperability. Since, semantic web standards such as RDF/OWL provide a combined structure for meaningful exchange of information among applications, without an extensive shared vocabulary these exchanges will be quite limited. The OpenCyc theory removes this limitation by supplying an extensive network of terms, in such forms that can be understood both by computers and humans. It ensures that these applications will surely have something to express.
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