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Title:	Knowledge management for TEXPROS
Author:	Hu, Jianshun
View Online:	njit-etd1999-062 (xii, 152 pages ~ 7.6 MB pdf)
Department:	Department of Computer and Information Science
Degree:	Doctor of Philosophy
Program:	Computer Science
Document Type:	Dissertation
Advisory Committee:	Ng, Peter A. (Committee co-chair) Thomas, Gary L. (Committee co-chair) Hung, Daochuan (Committee member) Kurfess, Franz J. (Committee member) Curtis, Ronald S. (Committee member)
Date:	1999-05
Keywords:	Text processing (Computer science). Office information systems.
Availability:	Unrestricted
Abstract:	Most of the document processing systems today have applied Al technologies to support their system intelligent behaviors. For the application of Al technologies in such systems, the core problem is how to represent and manage different kinds of knowledge to support their inference engine components' functionalities. In other words, knowledge management has become a critical issue in the document processing systems. In this dissertation, within the scope of the TEXt PROcessing System (TEXPROS), we identify knowledge of various kinds that are applicable in the system. We investigate several problems of managing this knowledge and then develop a knowledge base for TEXPROS. In developing this knowledge base, we present approaches to representing and managing different kinds of knowledge to support its inference engine components' functionalities. In TEXPROS, a dual-model paradigm is used, which contains the folder organization and the document type hierarchy, to represent and manage documents. We introduce a new System Catalog structure to represent and manage the knowledge for TEXPROS. This knowledge includes the system-level information of the folder organization and the document type hierarchy, and the operational level information of the document base itself. A unified storage approach is employed to store both the operational level information and system level information. Such storage is to house the frame template base and frame instance base. An enhanced two-level thesaurus model is presented in this dissertation. When dealing with special kinds of data in processing documents, a new structure "DataDomain" is presented, which supports the extended thesaurus functionalities, pattern recognition and data type operations. Based on the dual-model paradigm of TEXPROS, a concept of “Semantic Range” is presented to solve the sense ambiguity problems. In this dissertation, we also present the approaches to implement the general KeyTerm transformation and approximate term matching of TEXPROS. Finally, a new component “Registration Center” at the knowledge management level of TEXPROS is presented. The registration center aims to help users handle knowledge packages for specific working domain and to solve the knowledge porting problem for TEXPROS. This dissertation is concluded with the future research work.