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Abstract Explanations of Strategy in a Diagnostic Consultation System

Diane Warner Hasling
AAAI 1983 pp. 157-161
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Abstract

This paper presents the explanation system for NEOMYCIN*, a medical consultation program. A consultation program plays the role of an expert to assist a user in solving a problem. An explanation of strategy describes the plan the program is using to reach a solution. Such an explanation is usually concrete, referring to aspects of the current problem situation. Abstract explanations articulate a general principle, which can be applied in different situations; such explanations are useful in teaching and in explaining by analogy. We describe the aspects of NEOMYCIN that make abstract strategic explanations possible--the representation of strategic knowledge explicitly and separately from domain knowledge-and demonstrate how this representation can be used to generate explanations.

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Hasling. "Abstract Explanations of Strategy in a Diagnostic Consultation System." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1983.

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[Hasling. "Abstract Explanations of Strategy in a Diagnostic Consultation System." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1983.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1983/hasling1983aaai-abstract/)

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@inproceedings{hasling1983aaai-abstract,
  title     = {{Abstract Explanations of Strategy in a Diagnostic Consultation System}},
  author    = {Hasling, Diane Warner},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1983},
  pages     = {157-161},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1983/hasling1983aaai-abstract/}
}