ACKnowledge project: A framework for knowledge acquisition techniques integration

Knowledge Acquisition is a critical and time-consuming phase during the development of knowledge based systems. The ACKnowledge project' aims at improving the efficiency of knowledge acquisition. For this purpose, the theoretical approach of the project consists in analyzing and evaluating applicability of existing knowledge acquisition techniques in various contexts in order to develop a comprehensive framework for integrating complementary knowledge acquisition techniques. Practical achievements of the project include the realization of a knowledge engineering workbench (KEW) based on the above framework. In this article we introduce the overall approach of the project and present the central issue of integration within the project. Finally we present the fvst prototype of KEW which provides a realization of our theoretical approach.