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Method of construction of hierarchically organized procedural node information structure including a method for extracting procedural knowledge from an expert, and procedural node information structure constructed thereby

US5471560A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 17, 1994
Grant dateNov 28, 1995
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Expiry dateFeb 17, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06N5/022
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A knowledge acquisition tool for direct use by an expert in the automatic creation of a knowledge base derived from the knowledge of the expert, the knowledge acquisition tool including an input device usable by the expert for providing knowledge to the tool in response to questions, statements and/or prompts from the tool, a display for displaying the knowledge, questions, statements and prompts so that the expert can interact with the tool in creating the knowledge base, and a processor connected to the input device and the display for supplying the questions, statements and prompts to the display in order to extract the knowledge from the expert in the creation of the knowledge base incorporating the knowledge provided by the expert through use of the input device.

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