Publisher's Synopsis
This book fills a gap in the intelligent knowledge based systems literature, addressing the issues involved in the verbalisation of knowledge and explanations in the contexts of expert systems and decision aids. It reviews the relationship between knowledge and language, stressing the importance of an understanding of this relationship in the context of expert systems.;The editor takes the approach that any effective use of the language in explanation must be based on a clear understanding of the issues from the points of view of all associated: firstly, in the construction of a knowledge base where human experts are asked to put their expertise into words and secondly, that the expert system can explain its reasoning at least in terms of how it produced a result, and why it requires specific information.
