procedural knowledge

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Procedural knowledge encodes some sort of process or algorithm to create an answer in contrast to declarative knowledge. This distinction applies to human reasoning, for example you might know how to add up large numbers on an abacus (procedural knowledge) wheras another person might simply remember that 12+23 is 35 (declarative knowledge). It also applies to automated reasoning , for example the use of grammars and parsing in natural language processing (procedural knowledge) vs. looking things up in a large lexicon (declarative knowledge).

Used in Chap. 2: pages 11, 12, 16, 17, 21; Chap. 17: page 280

Also known as analytic rules, procedural, procedural