Acquiring Problem-Solving Knowledge from End Users: Putting Interdependency Models to the Test

Jihie Kim, Yolanda Gil

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Abstract

Developing tools that allow non-programmers to enter knowledge has been an ongoing challenge for AI. In recent years researchers have investigated a variety of promising approaches to knowledge acquisition (KA), but they have often been driven by the needs of knowledge engineers rather than by end users. This paper reports on a series of experiments that we conducted in order to understand how far a particular KA tool that we are developing is from meeting the needs of end users, and to collect valuable feedback to motivate our future research. This KA tool, called EMeD, exploits Interdependency Models that relate individual components of the knowledge base in order to guide users in specifying problem-solving knowledge. We describe how our experiments helped us address several questions and hypotheses regarding the acquisition of problem-solving knowledge from end users and the benefits of Interdependency Models, and discuss what we learned in terms of improving not only our KA tools but also about KA research and experimental methodology.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 12fth Conference on Innovative Applications ofArtificial Intelligence, AAAI 2000
PublisherAAAI Press
Pages223-229
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)0262511126, 9780262511124
StatePublished - 2000
Event17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAA1 2000 - Austin, United States
Duration: 30 Jul 20003 Aug 2000

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 12th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2000

Conference

Conference17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAA1 2000
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period30/07/003/08/00

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