[xzins]

I found this graphic on a knowledge acquisition page and found it interesting. Their interest was in retrieving knowledge from experts. They considered experts to be a major source of knowledge, and that they were a largely untapped resource. (http://www.epistemics.co.uk/Notes/63-0-0.htm)

Comparison of KA Techniques
The figure below presents the various techniques described above and shows the types of knowledge they are mainly aimed at eliciting. The vertical axis on the figure represents the dimension from object knowledge to process knowledge, and the horizontal axis represents the dimension from explicit knowledge to tacit knowledge.

[RightWhale]

Expert systems may be nothing more than a software marketing ploy. AI is one thing, and database mining something else. There is tremendous progress being made in database mining and topology applications. I am not worried that they will get their thinking machines to work. Goedel might have been wrong, but the Fourfold Principle of Sufficient Reason has a method or three of knowing the Truth that is beyond machines. Should we worry the machines will pull our feeding tubes? Maybe, but that would be cold logic, not revelation. Goedel kept asking why until eventually nobody could answer and the AI fans keep him chained to a bed in the attic and hope everybody forgets about him.

[Alamo-Girl]

What a fascinating chart for the acquisition of "knowledge" from experts! Thank you so very much for sharing it.