Transforming Information Into Knowledge: Quick Diagnosis and Prognosis

transforming information into knowledge: quick diagnosis and prognosis

Transforming Examples into Patterns for Information Extraction

Information Extract ion (IE) systems today are commonly based on pat tern matching. The pat terns are regular expressions stored in a customizable knowledge base. Adapting an IE system to a new subject domain entails the construction of a new pat tern base a t ime-consuming and expensive task. We describe a s trategy for building pat terns from examples. To adapt the IE system to a new domain q...

Turning Information into Knowledge

Lotus Notes, a broad-based software environment tailored for access to distributed databases and electronic communications, has been called the "foundation of a virtual library." Its flexibility and ability to incorporate numerous databases across domains make it a contemporary "microcosm" of how electronic resources can be a tool for organizational learning. Lotus Notes is a particularly rich ...

Preliminary Investigations into Knowledge Discovery for Quick Market Intelligence

Quick Market Intelligence (QMI) is the process of identifying salient aspects of a business market to target sales more effectively. Retail businesses have begun to apply knowledge discovery techniques to their sales databases to quickly determine the optimal quantity of a certain product to stock, how well a sales promotion is doing, its location within a store, and its price, all given histor...

Transforming Rules and Trees into Comprehensible Knowledge Structures

The problem of transforming the knowledge bases of expert systems using induced rules or decision trees into comprehensible knowledge structures is addressed. A knowledge structure is developed that generalizes and subsumes production rules, decision trees, and rules with exceptions. It gives rise to a natural complexity measure that allows them to be understood, analyzed and compared on a unif...