The Open Mind project, together with ThoughtTreasure and Learner are all very interesting projects in and of their own, where Learner and Open Mind try to build up a common sense ontology from voluntary user input on webpages, and TT trying to understand texts. The one thing in common to all these is that some version of their knowledgebase is available for download. There is also data from SUMO and OpenCYC available.
Why all this is interesting to me right now is that I am trying to choose my thesis topic, and I am very much in favor of my idea about entering a chatbot into the Loebner contest right now. The problem is I understand that this is a huge, enourmous, even mind-bogglingly hard task. Firstly there is the three main parts of a chatbot: Input recognition, inference engine/reasoning/knowledge store, and generating output. Now each of these are hard parts, and I will try to make them all in less than 20 weeks, with no deep knowledge about inferencing, knowledge representation or linguistics. Yeah, I would say it is looking dark. But it is so damn fun to atleast try. I might have to restrict myself though.
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