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title: "Comparing the Conceptual Systems of Experts"
authors:
  - "Brian R. Gaines"
  - "Mildred L. G. Shaw"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/101"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/0101.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1989
pages: "633-637"
track: "Machine Learning"
keywords:
---

# Comparing the Conceptual Systems of Experts

Brian R. Gaines, Mildred L. G. Shaw

*Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 633-637.

## Abstract

The knowledge to be acquired for the development of knowledge based systems is often distributed across a group of experts rather than available for elicitation from a single expert. Group elicitation presents major problems because experts can disagree on the use of concepts and vocabulary, and this disagreement may be tacit causing confusion. This paper describes a computer-supported methodology for knowledge acquisition from groups in which the conceptual frameworks of different experts are compared in a way that makes such disagreements overt and readily identifiable.