TY - CHAP
T1 - Expert System
AU - Hildebrandt, Thomas Troels
AU - Cattani, Gian Luca
PY - 2016/10/23
Y1 - 2016/10/23
N2 - An expert system is a computer system for inferring knowledge from a knowledge base, typically by using a set of inference rules. When the concept of expert systems was introduced at Stanford University in the early 1970s, the knowledge base was an unstructured set of facts. Today the knowledge base of expert systems is often given in terms of an ontology, extracted and built from various data sources by employing natural language-processing and statistics. To emphasize such capabilities, the term “expert” is now often replaced by “cognitive,” “knowledge,” “knowledge-based,” or “intelligent” system. With very few exceptions, general-purpose expert systems have failed to emerge so far. However, expert systems are applied in specialized domains, particularly in healthcare. The increasing availability of large quantities of data to organizations today provides a valuable opportunity for the application of expert systems, but also raises issues regarding privacy and legal liability.
AB - An expert system is a computer system for inferring knowledge from a knowledge base, typically by using a set of inference rules. When the concept of expert systems was introduced at Stanford University in the early 1970s, the knowledge base was an unstructured set of facts. Today the knowledge base of expert systems is often given in terms of an ontology, extracted and built from various data sources by employing natural language-processing and statistics. To emphasize such capabilities, the term “expert” is now often replaced by “cognitive,” “knowledge,” “knowledge-based,” or “intelligent” system. With very few exceptions, general-purpose expert systems have failed to emerge so far. However, expert systems are applied in specialized domains, particularly in healthcare. The increasing availability of large quantities of data to organizations today provides a valuable opportunity for the application of expert systems, but also raises issues regarding privacy and legal liability.
U2 - 10.1002/9781118766804.wbiect244
DO - 10.1002/9781118766804.wbiect244
M3 - Book chapter
VL - 1-4
T3 - The Wiley Blackwell-ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication
BT - The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy
A2 - Jensen, Klaus Bruhn
A2 - Craig, Robert T.
A2 - Pooley, Jefferson D.
A2 - Rothenbuhler, Eric W.
PB - Wiley
ER -