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Integration of Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Claire Nédellec
Claire Nédellec
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Laboratorie de Recherche Informatique, Groupe Inférence et Apprentissage, Université Paris Sud, bût 490, F-91405 Orsay, France
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“Integration of Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition” may be a surprising title for an ECAI-94 workshop, since most machine learning (ML) systems are intended for knowledge acquisition (KA). So what seems problematic about integrating ML and KA? The answer lies in the difference between the approaches developed by what is referred to as ML and KA research. Apart from sonic major exceptions, such as learning apprentice tools (Mitchell et al., 1989), or libraries like the Machine Learning Toolbox (MLT Consortium, 1993), most ML algorithms have been described without any characterization in terms of real application needs, in terms of what they could be effectively useful for. Although ML methods have been applied to “real world” problems few general and reusable conclusions have been drawn from these knowledge acquisition experiments. As ML techniques become more and more sophisticated and able to produce various forms of knowledge, the number of possible applications grows. ML methods tend then to be more precisely specified in terms of the domain knowledge initially required, the control knowledge to be set and the nature of the system output (MLT Consortium, 1993; Kodratoff et al., 1994).

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 77 - 81
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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