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Putting Flesh ON THE BONES: Issues THAT Arise INCREATING ANATOMICAL KNOWLEDGE BASESWITH RICH RELATIONAL STRUCTURESFritz Lehmann and Doug and 3721 Executive Center Dr., Austin, Texas, 78731-1645 USAAbstractThe Cyc system has a large knowledge base with detailedknowledge about its concepts. Cyc has axioms and rules forcommon-sense real-world knowledge embedded in a largetaxonomy covering "everything". This is used with Cyc slogical inference engine to cover medical subject matter inconceptual depth with machine-usable semantics. Cyc ssemantic definitions of relationships are more detailed thanthose in other systems.

using composite, informative functional designators rather than simple names: (Nth (The (LeftFn FingerSeries)) means the fourth digit of the left-hand finger series counting laterally from the thumb. The composite description with nested functions allows the Cyc program to draw various fairly general inferences automatically.

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