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>>fogus+(OP)
The Cyc project, while fascinating, is basically a serious attempt at a general purpose semantic graph. It's been in the works since the early 80's.

And you know what? It should act as a warning to anybody thinking seriously about building large-scale semantic systems like the semantic web.

Cyc is pretty much useless (or at least the utility it provides is not exactly setting the world on fire). Until somebody can figure out how to employ an already very mature semantic graph like Cyc and do something(s) truly useful with it, don't waste anybody's time advocating the semantic web.

More imporantly, Cyc is a highly controlled semantic graph, with all of its information carefully curated. Imagine how terrible the results of semantic inference engines will be in the wild-west of the web!

>>elblan+s3
I couldn't agree more. I've been following Cyc off and on for 20 years. It has yet to produce anything that interests me. I have yet to see a good project I can get my hands on that gets anything OUT of Cyc. Last time I checked, after decades of input into Cyc all the papers on the Cyc sites were still about new ways to put into Cyc. They started an annual contest a few years ago for Cyc projects. I actually hacked together a not very good proposal to attempt to get value added information out of Cyc; and the winner? An academic proposal on another method of feeding the Cyc knowledge base.