Problems Many factors may contribute to make knowledge elicitation difficult. If the domain expert is hostile to the KE efforts the problems may be confounded. Heuristics utilized pose a particularly difficult problem since they are very difficult to obtain. Yet, after all, heuristics is what the KE is after since it is heuristics that differs an expert from a novice. This style has been employed, with many variations, since the very first computers.
Emphasis is line by line instructions, loops and linearity.
Communication resembles general terms with which we communicate in everyday life. I need a book on German history 2a. It must be during the period between the two wars. The computer should be able to find works on German history dealing with the Weimar republic, etc. It arrives at its answer by applying logical deductions to the description.