Knowledge based knowledge acquisition

A framework for knowledge based knowledge acquisition is presented. The ACKnowledge project addresses the problem of supporting the knowledge engineer in the phases of KBS development involving knowledge acquisition. The goal of ACKnowledge is to provide an integrated and principled system or knowledge engineering workbench (KEW). Within this project the author has been working on the problem of providing a coherent framework for the integration of knowledge acquisition (KA) methods and techniques. He has taken the view that KEW will act as a KBS for KA; this view has a number of consequences for the development of the next generation of knowledge acquisition tools.