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Proceed to your Coach's Weblog located at http://aredconsult.blogspot.com and discover secrets, tips, and tricks ______________________________ How To Create A Knowledge Base ______________________________ These are some tips to give you an idea of the process involved in creating a knowledge base. 1. Understand the reason why you are creating a knowledge base. Some reasons include: * To help teach people about the knowledge * To help reach and record agreements about the meanings and definitions of terms * To act as a reference source for the general public or for a more restricted group of people * To act as an extended glossary for an ordinary book or web site * Because everybody is creating knowledge bases and you think it is cool 2. Find good sources of information such as: * Books * On-line documents or web sites * Human experts 3. Define the subjects in the knowledge base. * You can use a tool such as Fact Guru's Text Analyzer to find terms. * You can also read your sources of information and make a list of all the terms that are used in special ways, or about which your information sources have a lot to say. * Decide on the extent of the knowledge base, what areas will it cover. You may have to cover a subset of the terms you have found. Perhaps you choose just the most important terms, or perhaps you focus on a particular topic. * If two terms are used for the same subject, decide which is to be the preferred term and list the other as a synonym. If a term is used with more than one meaning then you will have to number the different meanings. For example, you might have 'Post^1': A piece of wood sticking out of the ground, and 'Post^2', a service for exchanging mail. ^1 after the word indicates "meaning 1" and ^2 indicates "meaning 2". 4. Arrange the subjects in a kind of hierarchy or topic hierarchy * Use the Fact Guru Text Analyzer or examine your information sources to find how the subjects are related to each other. * Add new subjects as needed to group together categories of subjects * Make use of multiple inheritance as needed 5. Add facts for the subjects * Make "templates" in subjects high up in the hierarchy of facts that need to be filled in for subjects lower in the hierarchy. A template consists of a predicate but no complement. For example, in a hierarchy about cars you could introduce the predicates "has horsepower" and "manufacturer" at a high level in the hierarchy since all cars have these predicates. When you get to the subject "1995 Escort" you can fill in the values for the predicates. * Use the Fact Guru Text Analyzer or read your information sources to find facts 6. Check the knowledge base * Check that inherited facts still hold true in subconcepts * If identical or similar predicates appear in subjects with the same parent, move the predicate to their parent subject * Have the knowledge base reviewed by an expert in the area that the knowledge base is about ======================== Uses for Knowledge Bases ======================== Knowledge bases as teaching aids: Somebody who is learning about a topic can use a knowledge base as a learning or review aid. Many of the facts found in traditional books or other sources of narrative or expository text can be expressed in a very condensed way in a knowledge base. The learner has less to read and can clearly see the relationships among different parts of the knowledge. However, a knowledge base should normally complement other learning aids, not replace them completely. For example, a knowledge base doesn't contain exercises; also explanations of the knowledge are usually absent or very terse. Finally, the information in a knowledge base is highly organized, but it is not usually organized so that a learner can easily see the simplest subjects they should start learning first. Knowledge bases as aids to reach agreement about terminology: Very often, people working in a particular area will use terms in slightly different ways. This results in confusion, especially when people do not realize that they are not quite speaking the same language. A knowledge base is a very good way to define all the terms you use. You can start the process by having everybody propose definitions, then you can discuss the definitions and arrive at a compromise that you record in the knowledge base. However, a knowledge base contains more than just definitions. It contains many different facts about each subject. As you negotiate agreements about the definition, you can also negotiate agreements about all the other facts that are true regarding a subject. Doing this will often help you to clarify the definition. Knowledge bases as reference documents: People go to references documents such as dictionaries or encyclopedias when they want to look up a particular fact. A knowledge base can condense all the facts about a certain area into a convenient, browsable form. Knowledge bases as glossaries: Many books have glossaries so that, as people are reading the book, they can look up definitions about which they are unsure. A knowledge base can serve as a particularly powerful kind of glossary. It is more powerful than a typical glossary because it can be viewed in different ways (e.g. alphabetically or using the 'isa' hierarchy) and also because it contains more information about each term than simply a definition. =========== Disclaimer: =========== We gather our articles for review from public sources. However, we sometimes lost valuable data to acknowledge a source. 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