Cyc’s Fundamental Categories

The purpose of this reference document is to provide an overview of the most important and fundamental collections in Cyc’s upper ontology. #$Thing Everything represented by a CycL term – e.g. individuals like #$CityOfAustinTexas, collections like #$Dog,...

Common Microtheory Structures for Cyc Applications

This reference document discusses some common ways of organizing microtheories for Cyc applications. The basic organizational scheme described here is by no means the only possible way of organizing microtheories for an application – indeed, many applications...

Starting a Cyc Instance

[restrict level=”employee”] Cycorp employees, please refer to Starting a Cyc Instance at Cycorp. [/restrict] “Cyc” is the name of Cycorp’s AI software platform, composed of code that constitutes the knowledge base and the inference...

Alternative Path for ‘Intro to Querying Cyc’

This is an alternative query path from ‘Intro to Querying Cyc’ for users without access to the Adventure Works database. We use that database for continuity with our later modules on SKSI, but there is no content lost if you take this alternative path at...

How to Configure Your Cyc Browser

Once you have learned how to start your own Cyc, most of you will begin accessing it via the Cyc Browser, a graphical interface designed to help facilitate interacting with Cyc. After you have represented yourself in Cyc and logged in with your new ID, one of the...