LarKC: The Large Knowledge Collider
A tweet about a video on LarKC sent me looking for the project. From the webpage:
The aim of the EU FP 7 Large-Scale Integrating Project LarKC is to develop the Large Knowledge Collider (LarKC, for short, pronounced “lark”), a platform for massive distributed incomplete reasoning that will remove the scalability barriers of currently existing reasoning systems for the Semantic Web.
This will be achieved by:
- Enriching the current logic-based Semantic Web reasoning methods with methods from information retrieval, machine learning, information theory, databases, and probabilistic reasoning,
- Employing cognitively inspired approaches and techniques such as spreading activation, focus of attention, reinforcement, habituation, relevance reasoning, and bounded rationality.
- Building a distributed reasoning platform and realizing it both on a high-performance computing cluster and via “computing at home”.
Listening to the video while writing this post but did I hear correctly that data would have to be transformed into a uniform format or vocabulary? Was listening to: http://videolectures.net/larkcag09_vanharmelen_llkc/, try around time mark 12:00 and following.
I also noticed on the project homepage:
Start: 01-April-08
End: 30-Sep-11
Duration 42 months
So, what happens to LarKC on 1-Oct-11?