{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Knowledge Acquisition in the Consul System","authors":[{"name":"David Wilczynski","slug":"david-wilczynski","given":"David","family":"Wilczynski","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Ma ny knowledge-based systems feature general ma chinery that operat es on externally supplied information . These systems must solve the acquisition problem : how to represent the external knowledge . determine it it is adequate . and inco rp orate it into the know l ed ge base . As a mediator bet ween users and interactr ve services. the Consul system must understand the intent and behavi or of programs that perform interacti ve functions . To Consul . understanding a function means classifying a description of it in a highly structured . prebuilt know ledge base . A special form alism has been designed in wh ich a ser vice builder both programs functions and describes their actions. The resulting functional descriptions are then translated and interacti vel y classi fi ed into Consul 's knowledge base by Cons_~JI's acquisition co mponent . The acquisition dialogue with the service builder will be shown to be robust with respect to the information provided by the service builder. Inference ru les are automaticall y generated to acc ount tor discrepancies between a program 's specifications and expectations derived from Consul's knowledge base .","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/28","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0028.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/28.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/bibtex/28","volume":{"slug":"1981","title":"Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1981","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/","year":1981,"location":"Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada","dates":"24-28 August 1981","editors":"Roger C. Schank","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Learning","track":"Learning","number":28,"pages":{"first":135,"last":139},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}