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Baracskai Zoltán - Velencei Jolán:
Important characteristics for a Knowledge Engineer

Many practising Knowledge Engineers feel that being familiar with knowledge-based systems is not enough for knowledge building from the information angle.
We have put our, for a knowledge engineer defined, features and their degrees into the inductive learning of Doctus KBS combined with the expertise of our knowledge engineer colleagues. The outcome is stunningly simple.
Paying attention and emotional consciousness, as features are the most informative. In this study the knowledge engineer collected the elements of the knowledge basis in a focus group of experts gathered for that reason. This enabled the experts to ignore their positions in the company hierarchy and communicate with the knowledge engineer without anguish. On the other hand, nothing hindered them in calmly studying the knowledge of their colleagues.

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