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title: "Knowledge Acquisition from Structural Descriptions"
authors:
  - "Frederick Hayes-Roth"
  - "John P. McDermott"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/83"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0083.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1977
pages: "356-361"
track: "Knowledge Acquisition"
keywords:
---

# Knowledge Acquisition from Structural Descriptions

Frederick Hayes-Roth, John P. McDermott

*Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 356-361.

## Abstract

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