Discourse analysis of requirements and knowledge elicitation interviews

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 10-19

  Alvarez, R ^a  

^a University of Massachusettes   (United States)

Author keywords

Encoding; Expert systems; Humans; Information analysis; Information systems; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge based systems; Knowledge engineering; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); EXPERT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; ELICITATION TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PRACTICES; USER REQUIREMENTS; VOCABULARY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84948649502     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2002.994388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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