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From: jej@chinet.chi.il.us (joe jesson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
Subject: Knowledge Acquisition a Shame!
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Date: 1 Jul 90 23:33:04 GMT
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Posted-Date: Mon Jul  2 13:01:07 GMT 1990


 I work for a large company and recently been reviewing KA packages for
commercial use - what a joke. The maturity of such tools leave a great deal
to be desired and have been an academic exercise. The Knowledge-based tools
include Acquinas, Salt (if you want to hire Boeing Consultants, fine, if not
forget it), etc.

Most of the tools discussed by Gaines, Boose, et. al. have never stood up to
commercial use and is generally useless as a development tool. For cetain
classes of problems (diagnostic), decision trees are of practical use and
induction tools represent a _starting_ point. ..