Two decades of Ripple Down Rules research

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-184

  Richards, Debbie ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PROCESS; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; DOMAIN ANALYSIS; DOMAIN EXPERTS; EMAIL CLASSIFICATION; HELP-DESK SUPPORT; INTEGRAL PART; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURALLY OCCURRING; PARADIGM SHIFTS; RIPPLE DOWN RULES; ROBOCUP; RULE-BASED KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 68349148286     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: 14698005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888909000241     Document Type: Article

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