[Sigia-l] ConceptNet

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ConceptNet is a freely available commonsense knowledgebase and
natural-language-processing toolkit which supports many practical
textual-reasoning tasks over real-world documents right out-of-the-box
(without additional statistical training) including

*  topic-jisting (e.g. a news article containing the concepts, ³gun,²
³convenience store,² ³demand money² and ³make getaway² might suggest the
topics ³robbery² and ³crime²),

*  affect-sensing (e.g. this email is sad and angry),

*  analogy-making (e.g. ³scissors,² ³razor,² ³nail clipper,² and ³sword² are
perhaps like a ³knife² because they are all ³sharp,² and can be used to ³cut
something²),

*  text summarization

*  contextual expansion

*  causal projection

*  cold document classification

*  and other context-oriented inferences

The ConceptNet knowledgebase is a semantic network presently available in
two versions: concise (200,000 assertions) and full (1.6 million
assertions). Commonsense knowledge in ConceptNet encompasses the spatial,
physical, social, temporal, and psychological aspects of everyday life.
Whereas similar large-scale semantic knowledgebases like Cyc and WordNet are
carefully handcrafted, ConceptNet is generated automatically from the
700,000 sentences of the Open Mind Common Sense Project ­ a World Wide Web
based collaboration with over 14,000 authors.

<http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/conceptnet/>

The Flash browser is apparently missing on that page. Anyone played with
ConceptNet yet?

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Ziya

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