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From: motcid!ahlenius@relay.eu.net (Mark Ahlenius)
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Subject: Re: Knowledge Acquisition a Shame!
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Date: 3 Jul 90 12:48:48 GMT
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Posted-Date: Wed Jul  4 09:11:30 GMT 1990

jej@chinet.chi.il.us (joe jesson) writes:

> 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. ..

Out of curiousity, have you looked at (or used) Nexpert, by Neuron
Data (actually by Boose or Gaines, I cant remember which one is at
Calgary).

Like to know your impressions. I have played with it, and find it 
interested - but I didn't come away being awe-struck or anything.
I have not seen (nor have I looked) for other tools like it.
It does help analyze information more easily.

I would think its strong points are with classification type 
problems - do you have any opinions on this area?

thanks

	'mark
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