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Showing 1 to 20 of 254 for “"Knowledge acquisition"”.
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Event-centric multimodal knowledge acquisition
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Knowledge acquisition for natural language understanding
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Contemporary subject knowledge acquisition in Economics
… and teachers' struggles with economic subject knowledge because originally very little resources were produced for the newly reformed curriculum. The research looks at how this phenomenon impacted students' and teachers' self-efficacy beliefs and investigated how students and teachers were …
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Domain knowledge acquisition via language grounding
… extraction. We propose methods to acquire knowledge represented in the form of relations and utilize them in two domain applications, high-level planning in a complex virtual world and input parser generation from input format specifications. In the first application, we propose a …
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ComicKit : knowledge acquisition of story scripts
… for acquiring story scripts for a common sense knowledge base. ComicKit's core mechanism is dragging and dropping icons into the panels of a comic. As the user creates a comic, ComicKit makes common sense suggestions for the story. ComicKit follows on the successful model of Open Mind Common …
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Knowledge Acquisition Processes: Understanding The Communication Event
<p>This research project’s two key discoveries offer new insights into Huber’s (1991) KA sub-processes (congenital learning, experimental learning, vicarious learning, grafting, and searching) and understanding the key elements (who, what, when, where, why, and how) of communication events. …
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Training spatial knowledge acquisition using virtual environments
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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Incremental knowledge acquisition for complex multi-agent environments
This thesis presents an incremental knowledge acquisition framework that supports the creation of multi-agent teams in complex real-time environments. The underlying technique is based upon the Ripple Down Rules (RDR) technology. RDR is a knowledge acquisition technology that allows the expert to …
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Automatic Knowledge Acquisition for Critiquing-Based Recommender Systems
… such data, these systems do not perform well. Knowledge-based recommender systems on the other hand are ideal for naive and casual users. However, the challenge for these systems lies in the knowledge engineering process to produce the knowledge base. This thesis proposes a novel knowledge …
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Facilitating consensus knowledge acquisition by Andrew W. Trice.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1990.
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Applying spreadsheet concepts to new knowledge acquisition tools
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1987
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Knowledge Acquisition from User Reviews for Interactive Question Answering
Nowadays, the effective management of information is extremely important for all spheres of our lives and applications such as search engines and question answering systems help users to find the information that they need. However, even when assisted by these various applications, people sometimes …
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An agentic approach to information seeking for knowledge acquisition
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Tweets2Cube: Interactive spatiotemporal knowledge acquisition from massive social media
… applied to the retrieved data for extracting knowledge about people's activities in the physical world. Such algorithms jointly model location, time, and text and are capable of discovering a variety of patterns, such as routine spatiotemporal activities, unusual events, and mobility patterns. …
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Structured methodology for knowledge acquisition in kit component selection
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1997.
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Effects of Gamification on Knowledge Acquisition: Aviation Weather Online Training
… dependent variable (engagement, motivation, and knowledge acquisition). Participants (<em>n</em> = 41) took part in an online NEXRAD training program—administered through Qualtrics—and received either the narrative intervention, leaderboard intervention, both, or neither. Participants were …
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Knowledge acquisition for expert systems: inducing modular rules from examples
Knowledge acquisition for expert systems is notoriously difficult, often demanding an enormous effort on the part of the domain expert, who is essentially expected to spell out everything he knows about the domain. The task is non-trivial and can be time-consuming and tedious. Machine learning …
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A knowledge acquisition tool to assist case authoring from texts.
… textual reports have been used to obtain knowledge for the CBR system. Creating a case-based reasoning system from textual sources is challenging because it requires that the text be interpreted in a meaningful way in order to create cases that are effective in problem-solving and to be …
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