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KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION AND VALIDATION 2023-2024

Knowledge Acquisition and Validation


 One of the most difficult tasks in building knowledge-based systems is in the
acquisition and encoding of the requisite domain knowledge.
 Knowledge for expert systems must be derived from expert sources like experts in
the given field, journal articles, texts, reports, data bases, and so on. Elicitation of
the right knowledge can take several man years and cost hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
 This process is now recognized as one of the main bottlenecks in building expert
and other knowledge based systems. Consequently, much effort has been devoted
to more effective methods of acquisition and coding.
 Pulling together and correctly interpreting the right knowledge to solve a set of
complex tasks is an onerous job.
 Typically, experts do not know what specific knowledge is being applied nor just
how it is applied in the solution of a given problem.
 Even if they do know, it is likely they are unable to articulate the problem solving
process well enough to capture the low-level knowledge used and the inferring
processes applied.
 This difficulty has led to the use of Al experts (called knowledge engineers) who
serve as intermediaries between the domain expert and the system. The knowledge
engineer elicits information from the experts and codes this knowledge into a form
suitable for use in the expert system.
 Using the knowledge gained front experts and other sources, the knowledge
engineer codes the knowledge in the form of rules or some other representation
scheme.
 This knowledge is then used to solve sample problems for review and validation
by the experts.

The knowledge acquisition process


 When Nii begins a project, she first persuades a human expert to commit the
considerable time that is required to have the expert's mind mined.

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KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION AND VALIDATION 2023-2024
 Once this is done, she immerses herself in the given field, reading texts, articles,
and other material to better understand the field and to learn the basic jargon used.
She then begins the interviewing process.
 She asks the expert to describe his or her tasks and problem solving techniques.
She asks the expert to choose a moderately difficult problem to solve as an
example of the basic approach.
 This information is then collected, studied, and presented to other members of the
development team so that a quick prototype can be constructed for the expert to
review. This serves several purposes.
 First, it helps to keep the expert in the development loop and interested.
 Secondly, it serves as a rudimentary model with which to uncover flaws and other
problems. It also helps both expert and developer in discovering the real way the
expert solves problems.
 This usually leads to a repeat of the problem solving exercise, but this time in a
step-by-step walk through of the sample problem.
 Nil tests the accuracy of the expert's explanations by observing his or her
behaviour and reliance on data and other sources of information. She is concerned
more with the manipulation of the knowledge than with the actual facts.
 Keeping the expert focused on the immediate problem requires continual
prompting and encouragement. During the whole interview process Nii is
mentally examining alternative approaches for the best knowledge representation
and inferencing methods to see how well each would best match the expert's
behaviour.
 The whole process of elicitation, coding, and verification may take several
iterations over a period of several months.
 Recognizing the acquisition bottleneck in building expert systems, researchers and
vendors alike have sought new and better ways to reduce the burden and reliance
placed on knowledge engineers, and in general, ways to improve and speed up the
development process. This has led to a number of sophisticated building tools
which we consider next.

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