Comparison To Other Projects
Other similar projects include Never-Ending Language Learning, Mindpixel (discontinued), Cyc, Learner, Freebase, YAGO, DBpedia, and Open Mind 1001 Questions, which have explored alternative approaches to collecting knowledge and providing incentive for participation.
The Open Mind Common Sense project differs from Cyc because it has focused on representing the common sense knowledge it collected as English sentences, rather than using a formal logical structure. ConceptNet is described by one of its creators, Hugo Liu, as being structured more like WordNet than Cyc, due to its "emphasis on informal conceptual-connectedness over formal linguistic-rigor"
There is also the Brazilian initiative, named Open Mind Common Sense in Brazil (OMCS-Br), led by the Advanced Interaction Lab at Federal University of São Carlos (LIA-UFSCar) started in 2005 in collaboration with the Software Agents Group at the MIT Media Lab which main goal is to collect Brazilian's common sense and develop culturally sensitive software applications based on extracting cultural profiles' knowledge from ConceptNet to help developers and users on better suite the final user's reality on having a culturally contextualized content software, making the final applications more flexible, adaptive, accessible and usable. The main applications' focuses are education and healthcare.
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