cyc
Noun
Meaning
cyc (plural cycs)
(informal) Clipping of cyclorama.
Examples
Commonsense knowledge bases (such as Doug Lenat 's Cyc ) are an example of "scruffy" AI, since they must be built by hand, one complicated concept at a time.
A famous example of more general purpose AI is the Cyc project, headed by Lenat.
Cyc was a decent start, McKinstry thought, but why not just get volunteers to input all that commonsense data in plain English?
Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project.
Cyc established its own Frame language and had large numbers of analysts document various areas of common sense reasoning in that language.
Cyc was meant to address this problem.