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At present there are several different approaches to the problem of knowledge acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems. This paper describes a comparative evaluation of three approaches, applied to the same medical domain: diagnosing chest pain. The first approach is what we call the ’compiled knowledge acquisition approach’, the second is ’machine induction’, the third ’knowledge structuring’. For each approach a version was designed that uses a set of cases diagnosed by experts as reference. The resulting knowledge bases were compared in terms of problem solving performance, the quality of the knowledge base and the effort spent on knowledge acquisition. Performance was also compared with human experts.
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Post, W., van Someren, M.W. (1991). A comparative evaluation of three approaches to the acquisition of medical knowledge. In: Stefanelli, M., Hasman, A., Fieschi, M., Talmon, J. (eds) AIME 91. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48650-0_21
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