It is usual when writing on research methodology in dissertations and thesis work within Software Engineering to refer to Empirical Methods, Grounded Theory and Action Research. Analysis of Constructive Research Methods which are fundamental for all knowledge production and especially for concept formation, modeling and the use of artifacts is seldom given, so the relevant first-hand knowledge ...

As the amount of information grows, the major issue is to access these resources, distributed over the network. Since a large number of the data that we might want to retrieve is not text-based, the only way to search within this type of information is by associating metadata. To reach this goal, some projects aim to optimize the annotation scheme in order to have a standard unified ontology mo...

When designing the natural language question asking interface for a formal knowledge base, managing and scoping the user expectations regarding what questions the system can answer is a key challenge. Allowing users to type ask arbitrary English questions will likely result in user frustration, because the system may be unable to answer many questions even if it correctly understands the natura...

Abs t rac t We propose an architecture for the organisation of linguistic knowledge which allows to (1) separately formulate generalizations for different types of linguistic information, and (2) state interrelations between partial information belonging to different levels of description. We use typed feature structures for encoding linguistic knowledge. We show the application of this represe...

We describe the knowledge acquisition (KA) techniques used to build the STOP system, especially sorting and think-aloud protocols. That is, we describe the ways in which we interacted with domain experts to determine appropriate user categories, schemas, detailed content rules, and so forth for STOP. Informal evaluations of these techniques suggest that they had some benefit, but perhaps were m...

This chapter describes an AI application called the TRADOC issue management expert (TIME), which was deployed in 1990 for the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). TIME helps generate a document that is part of the system acquisition milestone or decision process. The goal of TIME is to bridge the gap between the headquarters decision makers who know how to write the desired documen...

KUNSTI is the Norwegian national language technology programme, running 2001-2006 inclusive. The goal of the programme is to boost Norwegian language technology research. In this paper we describe the background, the objectives, the methodology applied in the management of the programme, the projects selected, and our first conclusions. We also describe national programmes form Sweden, France a...

The development of natural language interfaces to Artificial Intelligence systems is dependent on the representation of knowledge. A major impediment to building such systems has been the difficulty in adding sufficient linguistic and conceptual knowledge to extend and adapt their capabilities. This difficulty has been apparent in systems which perform the task of language production, i. e. the...

An agent-based simulation model representing a theory of the dynamic processes involved in innovation in modern knowledge-based industries is described. The agent-based approach allows the representation of heterogeneous agents that have individual and varying stocks of knowledge. The simulation is able to model uncertainty, historical change, effect of failure on the agent population, and agen...

The influence of the statistical properties of the network on the knowledge diffusion has been extensively studied. However, the structure evolution and the knowledge generation processes are always integrated simultaneously. By introducing the Cobb-Douglas production function and treating the knowledge growth as a cooperative production of knowledge, in this paper, we present two knowledge-gen...