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John McDermott
Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Publications - 69
Citations - 7783
John McDermott is an academic researcher from Carnegie Mellon University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Knowledge acquisition & Expert system. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 68 publications receiving 7689 citations.
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Strategies for Knowledge Acquisition
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe knowledge acquisition strategies developed in the course of handcrafting a diagnostic system and reports on their consequent implementation in MORE, an automated knowledge acquisition system.
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R1 Revisited: Four Years in the Trenches
Judith Bachant,John McDermott +1 more
TL;DR: R1's knowledge has increased substantially and its usefulness to Digital continues to grow and this article describes what is involved in extending R1's performance during the four year period.
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SALT: a k n owledge a c quisition l anguage for propose-and-revise systems
Sandra Marcus,John McDermott +1 more
TL;DR: SALT uses its knowledge of the intended problem-solving strategy in identifying relevant domain knowledge, in detecting weaknesses in the knowledge base in order to guide its interrogation of the domain expert, in generating an expert system that can perform the task and explain its line of reasoning, and in analyzing test case coverage.
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A personal learning apprentice
TL;DR: The organization of CAP, its performance in initial field tests, and more general lessons learned from this effort about learning apprentice systems are described.