The English method editor Project at ISI


Editing problem-solving knowledge using a structured English paraphrase, navigation and expression composition

Description

The English editor allows the user to examine and modify problem-solving knowledge through an automatically-generated English paraphrase of that knowledge. When users select parts of the paraphrase to modify, the editor suggests replacements, also paraphrased. The editor can also compose expressions based on search terms from the user.

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Status

Work on the english editor begain in 1998 under the HPKB program. Versions have been delivered under both HPKB and the Active Templates programs. It can be run using Java on windows or unix-based systems.

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Research

problem-solving knowledge, knowledge acquisition, intelligent user interfaces

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Publications

"An Integrated Environment for Knowledge Acquisition", Jim Blythe, Jihie Kim, Surya Ramachandran, Yolanda Gil. In Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-2001), Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 2001. Recipient of the Best Paper Award

"Integrating Expectations from Different Sources to Help End Users Acquire Procedural Knowledge", Jim Blythe. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01) 943-952

"Knowledge Acquisition using an English-Based Method Editor", Surya Ramachandran, Jim Blythe. In Proceedings of the Tenth Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop (KAW-99)

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Demo

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People

Group Members:

Jim Blythe

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Funding

DARPA Active Templates (AcT)
DARPA High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB)