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title: "Protocol Analysis as a Task for Artificial Intelligence"
authors:
  - "Donald A. Waterman"
  - "Allen Newell"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/20"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/0020.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1971
pages: "190-216"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Protocol Analysis as a Task for Artificial Intelligence

Donald A. Waterman, Allen Newell

*Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 190-216.

## Abstract

We are attempting to automate protocol analysis, which is a form of data analysis in psychology for inferring the information processes used by a human from his verbal behavior while solving a problem, The paper discusses protocol analysis as a task in artificial intelligence. The discussion is based on (but broader than) our current program, PAS-I, which creates a description of a subject's changing knowledge state from his verbal behavior.