Tools for Knowledge Acquisition and Verification in Medicine
Nicolass J. I. Mars, Perry L. Miller · PubMed Central · 1986
Expert systems require large amounts of domain knowledge for non-trivial problem solving. Experience in developing such systems has shown that the process of acquiring domain knowledge and of determining whether the knowledge is consistent, complete, and correct is a major obstacle to wide introduction of knowledge-based systems. We discuss various tools which have been developed to assist in these two processes. These tools bring additional knowledge to bear, or provide better interfaces between a knowledge engineer and the knowledge-based system. The discussion of existing tools is preceded by a framework for classifying them, based on the additional knowledge used.