[ontolog-forum] Knowledge Entry via SHAKEN

["Brian (Bo) Newman" <bo.newman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To the members of Ontolog,

Is there anyone within the group that has first-hand knowledge of the
work done under  DARPA?s Rapid Knowledge Formation (RKF) project,
specifically the work done by Peter Clark ( Knowledge Systems M&CT,
Boeing), et al, starting with the development of SHAKEN (see link below),
through which he and his colleagues claim to have developed a way for SME
to capture axiomatic knowledge through a graphical interface -- a method
which they claim overcomes the need for the SME to be proficient with
first order logic.

Given the problems we (Ontolog) have encountered relating to the skill
sets needed to develop axiomatic ontologies, if valid and workable, this
might be a way for mitigating the problem.  At minimum, I believe it
is worth a short discussion. 

I look forward to hearing of your experiences, and/or
insights.

Brian (Bo) Newman
Exec Director, The KMForum
Sr Analyst, TECHi2


REF-------------------------

Clark, P., Thompson, J., Barker, K., Porter, B., Chaudhri, V.,
Rodriguez, A., Thomr, J., Gil, Y. and Hayes, P. Knowledge Entry as the
Graphical Assembly of Components: The SHAKEN System, K-CAP?01, October
22-23, 2001, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada,. 2001.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kbarker/papers/kcap01-graph.pdf