TAQL: A Problem Space Tool for Expert System Development.

Abstract

In recent years, the method-based approach to knowledge acquisition has received a great deal of attention. The method-based approach abandons traditional AI programming techniques and languages. Instead, method-based knowledge acquisition tools attempt to interact with the task developer in domain terms rather than computational terms. These tools are built around highly-structured problem-solving methods, and use knowledge of the built-in methods to drive knowledge acquisition. Method-based tools can be quite powerful, but the highly-structured method built into each tool limits its scope to a narrow range of tasks. Furthermore, there are some expert system tasks for which no method-based tool has yet been built, despite serious efforts to do so. SALT, KNACK, and OPAL are well-known method-based knowledge acquisition tools.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA253820

Entities

People

  • Gregg R. Yost

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Debugging
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Expert Systems
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Based Systems
  • Lisp Programming Language
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Programming Languages

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space