Interactive knowledge validation and query refinement in CBR

  • Authors:
  • Monica H. Ou;Geoff A. W. West;Mihai Lazarescu;Chris Clay

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, Australia;Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, Australia;Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, Australia;Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

  • Venue:
  • AAAI'05 Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In most case-based reasoning (CBR) systems there has been little research done on validating new knowledge, specifically on how previous knowledge differs from current knowledge as a result of conceptual change. This paper proposes two methods that enable the domain expert, who is nonexpert in artificial intelligence (AI), to interactively supervise the knowledge validation process in a CBR system, and to enable dynamic updating of the system, to provide the best diagnostic questions. The first method is based on formal concept analysis which involves a graphical representation and comparison of the concepts, and a summary description highlighting the conceptual differences. We propose a dissimilarity metric for measuring the degree of variation between the previous and current concepts when a new case is added to the knowledge base. The second method involves determining unexpected classification-based association rules to form critical questions as the knowledge base gets updated.