Comparing the conceptual systems of experts

  • Authors:
  • Brian R. Gaines;Mildred L. G. Shaw

  • Affiliations:
  • Knowledge Science Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;Knowledge Science Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'89 Proceedings of the 11th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

The knowledge to be acquired for the development of knowledge based systems is often distributed across a group of experts rather than available for elicitation from a single expert. Group elicitation presents major problems because experts can disagree on the use of concepts and vocabulary, and this disagreement may be tacit causing confusion. This paper describes a computer-supported methodology for knowledge acquisition from groups in which the conceptual frameworks of different experts are compared in a way that makes such disagreements overt and readily identifiable.