Talk:Knowledge-based systems

message: I’m making a few changes to emphasize that KBS are not just IF-THEN forward/backward-chainers, but also include other approaches to representing knowledge and other approaches to reasoning. Especially, I wanted to tie in the work in KR&R and increase the emphasis on logic and automated reasoning systems, beyond the mention of the semantic web. Additionally, blackboard systems and knowledge-based systems with meta-level reasoning illustrate knowledge-based approaches more sophisticated than IF-THEN rules. Without these changes or similar ones, the richness of approaches to knowledge representation (the knowledge base) and reasoning (the inference engine) are lost.
I removed the mention of user-interfaces since the key distinguishing features are the KB and reasoning capabilities. Of course, a user-interface is an integral part of a deployed application, but it does not distinguish a KBS as most deployed applications will have user interfaces.
Finally, I also made some minor wording changes.
Veritas Aeterna (talk) 00:36, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

message: I noticed you recently undid a change where  deleted a sentence about the Semantic Web, Watson, and Wolfram. I was originally going to do the same (undo the removal of sourced text) but when I looked at the references I don't think they support the sentence. I searched for "Semantic web" on the Watson reference page and didn't even find a match for "semantic". As for the Wolfram reference first, I do a fair amount of work in the Semantic Web and I've never heard of Wolfram. Second, there is also no find for "Semantic" on the Wolfram page used as a reference. Also, that page is just a section of the site Wolfram.com.  As far as I can tell Wolfram is a commercial product so even if that reference did talk about the Semantic Web a company web page for a product is not a valid primary reference and is essentially spam for a company. I think the issue is a bit complex because while to my knowledge IBM didn't use Semantic Web technology such as RDF or OWL to build Watson, Watson is the kind of system that the Semantic Web is meant to support. Also, I did find a page on IBM's web site where they say "IBM has an implementation of RDF in DB2. Semantic technology is a key enabler to "contextual computing" and the contextual enterprise. IBM's WATSON Jeopardy! System is an example of contextual computing, and future versions of WATSON will thrive on rich context creation."  https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/5things/entry/5_things_to_know_about_the_semantic_technologies?lang=en  Not sure what this means, it sounds to me essentially like marketing speak with IBM making sure that companies looking for Semantic Web technology will consider Watson but not sure. My point is though I agree with the Internet user who made the deletion. Wolfram should definitely go (unless there is a better reference) and Watson is very iffy. DBPedia is a much better example of semantic web technology. I think removing that sentence was correct but don't want to start edit warring.  any revised thoughts?  --MadScientistX11 (talk) 14:43, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I was reading too fast and didn't read the whole section carefully. Without clear sources you are right the sentence should be removed. Thanks for checking this. StarryGrandma (talk) 17:41, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
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