The High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) was a DARPA research program to advance the technology of how computers acquire, represent and manipulate knowledge. The successor of the HPKB project was the Rapid Knowledge Formation (RKF) project.
The primary results of the HPKB project was to focus further research on the Knowledge acquisition bottleneck problem.
HPKB was divided programmatically into three groups:
Integrators
Technology developers
Challenge problem developers
See also
Knowledge base
Cyc - commercial knowledge base
OpenCyc - Open Source version of Cyc
Electronic Directory Research (EDR) - Japanese large knowledge base effort
Project Halo - Ultimate successor project
Rapid Knowledge Formation (RKF)- follow-on project
SUMO - Suggested Upper Merged Ontology
Wikipedia - example of large knowledge base that is not yet semantically parsable WordNet - a semantic network of words, terms used in the English language
External links
DARPA HPKB Home Page
Cohen,P., Schrag, R., Jones, E., Pease, A., Lin, A., Starr, B., Gunning, D. and Burke, M. DARPA High-Performance Knowledge Bases Project AI Magazine Volume 19 Number 4 (1998)
References
Web Intelligence: First Asia-Pacific Conference, Wi 2001, Maebashi City, Japan, October 23–26, by N Zhong, Y Yao, J Liu