Download or read book Knowledge Acquisition Selected Research and Commentary written by Sandra Marcus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What follows is a sampler of work in knowledge acquisition. It comprises three technical papers and six guest editorials. The technical papers give an in-depth look at some of the important issues and current approaches in knowledge acquisition. The editorials were pro duced by authors who were basically invited to sound off. I've tried to group and order the contributions somewhat coherently. The following annotations emphasize the connections among the separate pieces. Buchanan's editorial starts on the theme of "Can machine learning offer anything to expert systems?" He emphasizes the practical goals of knowledge acquisition and the challenge of aiming for them. Lenat's editorial briefly describes experience in the development of CYC that straddles both fields. He outlines a two-phase development that relies on an engineering approach early on and aims for a crossover to more automated techniques as the size of the knowledge base increases. Bareiss, Porter, and Murray give the first technical paper. It comes from a laboratory of machine learning researchers who have taken an interest in supporting the development of knowledge bases, with an emphasis on how development changes with the growth of the knowledge base. The paper describes two systems. The first, Protos, adjusts the training it expects and the assistance it provides as its knowledge grows. The second, KI, is a system that helps integrate knowledge into an already very large knowledge base.
Download or read book Foundations of Knowledge Acquisition written by Alan L. Meyrowitz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most intriguing questions about the new computer technology that has appeared over the past few decades is whether we humans will ever be able to make computers learn. As is painfully obvious to even the most casual computer user, most current computers do not. Yet if we could devise learning techniques that enable computers to routinely improve their performance through experience, the impact would be enormous. The result would be an explosion of new computer applications that would suddenly become economically feasible (e. g. , personalized computer assistants that automatically tune themselves to the needs of individual users), and a dramatic improvement in the quality of current computer applications (e. g. , imagine an airline scheduling program that improves its scheduling method based on analyzing past delays). And while the potential economic impact of successful learning methods is sufficient reason to invest in research into machine learning, there is a second significant reason: studying machine learning helps us understand our own human learning abilities and disabilities, leading to the possibility of improved methods in education. While many open questions remain about the methods by which machines and humans might learn, significant progress has been made.
Download or read book Current Trends in Knowledge Acquisition written by Bob Wielinga and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge acquisition has become a major area of artificial intelligence and cognitive science research. The papers in this book show that the area of knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems is still a diverse field in which a large number of research topics are being addressed. However, several main themes run through the papers. First, the issues of integrating knowledge from different sources and K.A. tools is a salient topic in many papers. A second major topic in the papers is that of knowledge modelling. Research in knowledge-based systems emphasises the use of generic models of reasoning and its underlying knowledge. An important trend in the area of knowledge modelling aims at the formalisation of knowledge models. Where the field of knowledge acquisition was without tools and techniques years ago, now there is a rapidly growing body of techniques and tools. Apart from the integrated workbenches already mentioned above, several papers in this book present new tools. Although knowledge acquisition and machine learning have been considered as separate subfields of AI, there is a tendency for the two fields to come together. This publication combines machine learning techniques with more conventional knowledge elicitation techniques. A framework is presented in which reasoning, problem solving and learning together form a knowledge intensive system that can acquire knowledge from its own experience.
Download or read book Foundations of Knowledge Acquisition written by Susan Chipman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most intriguing questions about the new computer technology that has appeared over the past few decades is whether we humans will ever be able to make computers learn. As is painfully obvious to even the most casual computer user, most current computers do not. Yet if we could devise learning techniques that enable computers to routinely improve their performance through experience, the impact would be enormous. The result would be an explosion of new computer applications that would suddenly become economically feasible (e. g. , personalized computer assistants that automatically tune themselves to the needs of individual users), and a dramatic improvement in the quality of current computer applications (e. g. , imagine an airline scheduling program that improves its scheduling method based on analyzing past delays). And while the potential economic impact ofsuccessful learning methods is sufficient reason to invest in research into machine learning, there is a second significant reason: studying machine learning helps us understand our own human learning abilities and disabilities, leading to the possibility of improved methods in education. While many open questions remain aboutthe methods by which machines and humans might learn, significant progress has been made.
Download or read book Knowledge Acquisition for Expert Systems written by A. Kidd and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building an expert system involves eliciting, analyzing, and interpreting the knowledge that a human expert uses when solving problems. Expe rience has shown that this process of "knowledge acquisition" is both difficult and time consuming and is often a major bottleneck in the production of expert systems. Unfortunately, an adequate theoretical basis for knowledge acquisition has not yet been established. This re quires a classification of knowledge domains and problem-solving tasks and an improved understanding of the relationship between knowledge structures in human and machine. In the meantime, expert system builders need access to information about the techniques currently being employed and their effectiveness in different applications. The aim of this book, therefore, is to draw on the experience of AI scientists, cognitive psychologists, and knowledge engineers in discussing particular acquisition techniques and providing practical advice on their application. Each chapter provides a detailed description of a particular technique or methodology applied within a selected task domain. The relative strengths and weaknesses of the tech nique are summarized at the end of each chapter with some suggested guidelines for its use. We hope that this book will not only serve as a practical handbook for expert system builders, but also be of interest to AI and cognitive scientists who are seeking to develop a theory of knowledge acquisition for expert systems.
Download or read book Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning written by Katharina Morik and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1993-09-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For graduate-/research- level students and professors, this book integrates machine learning with knowledge acquisition to overcome the problems of building models for knowledge-based systems to maintain them successfully. It also reports on BLIP and MOBAL systems developed over the last decade, which illustrate a particular way of unifying knowledge acquisition and machine learning. Practically-orientated, theoretical skills have been used and tested in real-world applications. Integrates machine learning with knowledge acquisition to overcome the problems of building models for knowledge based systems to maintain them successfully Reports on BLIP and MOBAL systems that have been developed over the past 10 years, which illustrate a particular way of unifying knowledge acquisition and machine learning Practically oriented--theoretical results have been used and tested in real-world applications from the start
Download or read book Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition written by Gheorghe Tecuci and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently, both fields are moving towards an integrated approach using machine learning techniques to automate knowledge acquisition from experts, and knowledge acquisition techniques to guide and assist the learning process.
Download or read book Readings in Knowledge Acquisition and Learning written by Bruce G. Buchanan and published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in Knowledge Acquisition and Learning collects the best of the artificial intelligence literature from the fields of machine learning and knowledge acquisition. This book brings together the perspectives on constructing knowledge-based systems from these two historically separate subfields of artificial intelligence.
Download or read book Exemplar Based Knowledge Acquisition written by Ray Bareiss and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exemplar-Based Knowledge Acquisition: A Unified Approach to Concept Representation, Classification, and Learning covers the fundamental issues in cognitive science and the technology for solving real problems. This text contains six chapters and begins with a description of the rationale for the design of Protos Approach, its construction and performance. The succeeding chapters discuss how the Protos approach meets the requirements of representing concepts, using them for classification, and acquiring them from available training. These chapters also deal with the design and implementation of Protos. These topics are followed by a presentation of examples of the application of Protos to audiology and evaluate its performance. The final chapters survey related work in the areas of case-based reasoning and automated knowledge acquisition and the contributions of Protos approach. This book will be of great value to psychologists, psychiatrists, and researchers in the field of artificial intelligence.
Download or read book Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems written by Hayato Ohwada and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems, PKAW 2016, held in Phuket, Thailand, in August 2016. The 16 full papers and 5 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 initial submissions. They deal with knowledge acquisition and machine learning; knowledge acquisition and natural language processing; knowledge acquisition from network and big data; and knowledge acquisition and applications.
Download or read book Knowledge Acquisition from Databases written by Xindong Wu and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive English-Russian and Russian-English collection of modern statistical terminology, containing some 13,500 terms and some 1,000 names. Topics covered include mathematical statistics and probability theory, computational statistics and statistical software, and applied statistical components in economics, sociology, demography, medicine, natural sciences, and technology. The volume provides an extensive collection of terms in the fields of computer terminology related to problems of data processing and statistical software, theory of random processes, statistical quality control, operations research, and some supplementary areas such as the terminology of Russian official statistics. For translators and other experts who work with English and Russian statistical literature. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Advances in Knowledge Acquisition and Management written by Achim Hoffmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since knowledge was recognized as a crucial part of intelligent systems in the 1970s and early 1980s, the problem of the systematic and efficient acquisition of knowledge was an important research problem. In the early days of expert systems, the focus of knowledge acquisition was to design a suitable knowledge base for the problem - main by eliciting the knowledge from available experts before the system was c- pleted and deployed. Over the years, alternative approaches were developed, such as incremental approaches which would build a provisional knowledge base initially and would improve the knowledge base while the system was used in practice. Other approaches sought to build knowledge bases fully automatically by employing machine-learning methods. In recent years, a significant interest developed regarding the problem of constructing ontologies. Of particular interest have been ontologies that could be re-used in a number of ways and could possibly be shared across diff- ent users as well as domains. The Pacific Knowledge Acquisition Workshops (PKAW) have a long tradition in providing a forum for researchers to exchange the latest ideas on the topic. Parti- pants come from all over the world but with a focus on the Pacific Rim region. PKAW is one of three international knowledge acquisition workshop series held in the Pacific-Rim, Canada and Europe over the last two decades. The previous Pacific Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, PKAW 2004, had a strong emphasis on inc- mental knowledge acquisition, machine learning, neural networks and data mining.
Download or read book Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems written by Kenichi Yoshida and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems, PKAW 2018, held in Nanjing, China, in August 2018. The 15 full papers and 7 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 initial submissions. They cover the methods and tools as well as the applications related to developing a knowledge base, healthcare, financial systems, and intelligent systems.
Download or read book New Approaches To Knowledge Acquisition written by Ruqian Lu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1994-11-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well recognized that knowledge acquisition is the critical bottleneck of knowledge engineering. This book presents three major approaches of current research in this field, namely the psychological approach, the artificial intelligence approach and the software engineering approach. Special attention is paid to the most recent advances in knowledge acquisition research, especially those made by Chinese computer scientists. A special chapter is devoted to its applications in other fields, e.g. language analysis, software engineering, computer-aided instruction, etc., which were done in China.
Download or read book Automated Knowledge Acquisition written by Sabrina Sestito and published by Prentice Hall PTR. This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tutorial provides clear explanations of techniques for automated knowledge acquisition. The techniques covered include: decision tree methods, progressive rule generation, explanation-based learning, artificial neural networks, and genetic algorithm approaches. The book is suitable for both advanced undergraduate and graduate students and computer professionals.
Download or read book Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge Programming and Knowledge Refinement written by Frederick Hayes-Roth and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the principal findings and recommendations of a 2-year Rand research project on machine-aided knowledge acquisition and discusses the transfer of expertise from humans to machines, as well as the functions of planning, debugging, knowledge refinement, and autonomous machine learning. The relative advantages of humans and machines in the building of intelligent systems are explained. Background and guidance is provided for policymakers concerned with the research and development of machine-based learning systems. The research method adopted emphasized iterative refinement of knowledge in response to actual experience; i.e., a machine's knowledge was acquired initially from a human who provided enough concepts, constraints, and problem-solving heuristics to define some minimal level of performance. Sixty-two references are listed. (Author/FM)
Download or read book Knowledge Acquisition written by Sandra Marcus and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: