knowledge acquisition

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Knowledge acquisition is the phase in the development of an expert system or other AI system during which knowledge is gathered and represented. Knowledge may be gathered explicitly knowledge elicitation from experts, or from other sources such as documentation, historic data or logging of ongoing expert use. The form of knowledge represention may vary and be aided by an expert system shell.

Used in Chap. 18: pages 291, 292, 297, 302, 310, 311