When do they expect Cyc to be able to read?
The subject of Natural Language or English input is complex. There is some implication in reading that there is a corresponding level of assimilation of new knowledge, as well as an understanding of what is read. Cyc does have some ability to convert English text into the language it uses to store knowledge. The English to CycL translator is not so robust that it can read news articles from a newsfeed and learn from them. Kathy Burns is leading the effort of the NL group and has substantially rewritten many components of the existing system. The new version of the Natural Language system is anticipated to be incorporated into existing applications using Cyc by the end of this year. These include image retrieval from text requests and limited natural language query processing.
