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Shifting positions: Moving from a cognitive science point of view to a knowledge engineering stance

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Contemporary Knowledge Engineering and Cognition

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After a short overview of knowledge acquisition highlights, we review experiences that we had in our knowledge acquisition project. We conclude that automated knowledge acquisition does not work without a documentation of the purpose that the knowledge will fulfill once it is acquired. This can be done for example through a description of a method of problem-solving. The remainder of the paper gives a more detailed account of the motives (outside the actual experiences with KRITON) that lead to these conclusions. After outlining several requirements, we delineate the role of cognitive science research in our current approach.

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Linster, M. (1992). Shifting positions: Moving from a cognitive science point of view to a knowledge engineering stance. In: Schmalhofer, F., Strube, G., Wetter, T. (eds) Contemporary Knowledge Engineering and Cognition. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 622. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0045691

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