Editing Open Mind Common Sense (section)

== Database and website ==

There are many different types of knowledge in OMCS. Some statements convey relationships between objects or events, expressed as simple phrases of natural language: some examples include "A coat is used for keeping warm", "The sun is very hot", and "The last thing you do when you cook dinner is wash your dishes". The database also contains information on the emotional content of situations, in such statements as "Spending time with friends causes happiness" and "Getting into a car wreck makes one angry".  OMCS contains information on people's desires and goals, both large and small, such as "People want to be
respected" and "People want good coffee".<ref name="aaai" />

Originally, these statements could be entered into the Web site as unconstrained sentences of text, which had to be parsed later. The current version of [http://openmind.media.mit.edu the Web site] collects knowledge only using more structured fill-in-the-blank templates. OMCS also makes use of data collected by the [[Game with a purpose|Game With a Purpose]] "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090929094517/http://www.gwap.com/gwap/gamesPreview/verbosity/ Verbosity]".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://openmind.media.mit.edu/profiles/verbosity/ |title=Profile for verbosity |publisher=Open Mind Commons Sense |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625014205/http://openmind.media.mit.edu/profiles/verbosity/ |archive-date=2010-06-25 }}</ref>

In its native form, the OMCS database is simply a collection of these short sentences that convey some common knowledge. In order to use this knowledge computationally, it has to be transformed into a more structured representation.