MORE: an intelligent knowledge acquisition tool

Abstract

MORE is a tool that assists in eliciting knowledge from domain experts. Acquired information is added to a domain model of qualitative causal relations that may hold among hypotheses, symptoms, and background conditions. After generating diagnostic rules from the domain model, MORE prompts for additional information that would allow a stronger set of diagnostic rules to be generated, MORE'S primary value lies in its understanding of what kinds of knowledge are likely to be diagnostically significant. By formulating its questions in a way that focuses on such knowledge, it makes the most effective use of the domain experts' time.