Effective encoding of information is one of the keys to qualitative problem solving. Our aim is to explore Knowledge Representation techniques that capture meaningful word associations occurring in documents. We have developed iReMedI, a TCBR-based problem solving system as a prototype to demonstrate our idea. For representation we have used a combination of NLP and [...]
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1 Jan
Interactive Case-Based Reasoning for Precise Information Retrieval
The knowledge explosion has continued to outpace technological innovation in search engines and knowledge management systems. It is increasingly difficult to find relevant information, not just on the World Wide Web at large but even in domain- specific medium-sized knowledge bases—online helpdesks, maintenance records, technical repositories, travel databases, e-commerce sites, and many others. Despite advances [...]
15 May
A Functional Theory of Creative Reading: Process, Knowledge, and Evaluation
Reading is a complex cognitive behavior, making use of dozens of tasks to achieve comprehension. As such, it represents an important aspect of general cognition; the benefits of having a theory of reading would be far-reaching. Additionally, there is an aspect of reading which has been largely ignored by the research, namely, reading appears to [...]
15 Oct
Structuring On-The-Job Troubleshooting Performance to Aid Learning
This paper describes a methodology for aiding the learning of troubleshooting tasks in the course of an engineer’s work. The approach supports learning in the context of actual, on-the-job troubleshooting and, in addition, supports performance of the troubleshooting task in tandem. This approach has been implemented in a computer tool called WALTS (Workspace for Aiding [...]
1 May
AQUA: Questions that Drive the Explanation Process
Editors’ Introduction:
In the doctoral disseration from which this chapter is drawn, Ashwin Ram presents an alternative perspective on the processes of story understanding, explanation, and learning. The issues that Ram explores in that dissertation are similar to those that are explored by the other authors in this book, but the angle that Ram take on [...]
1 Jan
Indexing, Elaboration and Refinement: Incremental Learning of Explanatory Cases
This article describes how a reasoner can improve its understanding of an incompletely understood domain through the application of what it already knows to novel problems in that domain. Case-based reasoning is the process of using past experiences stored in the reasoner’s memory to understand novel situations or solve novel problems. However, this process assumes [...]
1 Jan
A Theory of Questions and Question Asking
This article focusses on knowledge goals, that is, the goals of a reasoner to acquire or reorganize knowledge. Knowledge goals, often expressed as questions, arise when the reasoner’s model of the domain is inadequate in some reasoning situation. This leads the reasoner to focus on the knowledge it needs, to formulate questions to acquire this [...]
27 Jul
Decision Models: A Theory of Volitional Explanation
This paper presents a theory of motivational analysis, the construction of volitional explanations to describe the planning behavior of agents. We discuss both the content of such explanations as well as the process by which an understander builds the explanations. Explanations are constructed from decision models, which describe the planning process that an agent goes [...]
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