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AssigneeBritish Telecommunications public limited company
InventorsZhan Cui, Yang Li, Hongji Yang
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A method for knowledge representation and management is disclosed which has particular but not exclusive application in knowledge recovery techniques. To help with program understanding, software maintainers use computer aided reverse engineering (CARE) tools which utilise techniques such as syntax analysis, structural analysis, and domain knowledge base analysis (DKBA). Known DKBA methods are complex since the domain knowledge recovery relies on the use of knowledge at different layers while some elements of the knowledge at domain level is not used at all. In the disclosed method for representing knowledge in a knowledge base, the knowledge is represented by a set of one or more concepts and by one or more first type of relationships between two or more or said concepts, the method comprises dividing the set of concepts into a plurality of sub-sets, each sub-set comprising a set of concepts related to a sub-set of the knowledge; dividing the relationships among the sub-sets of concepts; and providing a further set comprising all the concepts along with a second type of relationship that provides an association between each concept in the further set of concepts and one or more of the sub-sets of concepts and relationships.
A method for representing knowledge in a knowledge base, the knowledge being represented by a set of one or more concepts and of one or more first type of relationships between two or more or said concepts, the method comprising the steps of:
A method according to any preceding claim in which the or each relationship represents a relation between one or more concepts and/or relationships and one or more other concepts and/or relationships.
A method according to any preceding claim in which the or each concept and relationship is associated with a variable for representing the confirmation strength of the concept or relationship.
A method according to any preceding claim in which the or each concept and relationship is associated with a variable for representing the refutation strength of the concept or relationship.
A computer program or suite of computer programs arranged to cause a computer or combination of computers to carry out the method according to any of the preceding claims.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.