High Performance Knowledge
Bases, DARPA
Sponsoring Agency: AFOSR
Knowledge Acquisition Area
 
Constructing and Refining Knowledge Bases: 
A Collaborative Apprenticeship Multistrategy Learning Approach
 
HPKB East Coast Meeting
Boston, April 1st, 1997
 
Gheorghe Tecuci
Learning Agents Laboratory
Computer Science Department 
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030 
  Slide Presentation
  - Goals 
 
  - KB Development Architecture 
 
  - KA Toolkit Architecture 
 
  - Main Processes of Knowledge Acquisition 
 
  - Illustrations of the KA Approach 
 
  - Knowledge Representation: Semantic Network 
 
  - Knowledge Representation: Plausible Version Space
    Rule 
 
  - Acquiring Knowledge to Judge Relevance of Historical
    Sources 
 
  
    - Rule Learning
 
    
      - Explanation of Input Example
 
      - Learning from Explanations 
 
      - Generalizing the Explanation to an Analogy Criterion
        and Learning a PVS Rule 
 
      - Solving Problems by Analogy 
 
    
    - KB Refinement through Active Experimentation 
 
    
      - Learning From a Positive Example 
 
      - Generalization of the Plausible Lower Bound 
 
      - Learning From a Negative Example 
 
      - Specializations of the Two Plausible Bounds 
 
      - Extending the Semantic Network as a Result of Rule
        Refinement
 
    
  
  - Acquiring Knowledge Representing the Expertise of a
    Company Commander 
 
  
    - Semantic Network for Company Commander
 
    - Learning a Rule for Platoon Placement 
 
    
      - Learned PVS Rule for Platoon Placement 
 
    
    - KB Refinement 
 
    
      - Specializations of Both Bounds of the Plausible
        Version Space 
 
      - Correct Placement of Company-d Generated by the KA
        Agent 
 
      - Updates to the Plausible Lower Bound 
 
      - Refined PVS Rule 
 
    
  
  - Some Research Issues for Rule Learning 
 
  - Some Research Issues for KB Refinement
 
  - Conclusions 
 
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