Artificial intelligence. What is domain skill? Frames in information seeking

Abstract

This article analyzes the role of domain skill in information seeking by individual human beings. It discusses the form and content of information in long-term memory ("knowledge"). Issues relating to acquisition and retrieval processes are surveyed. Special attention is paid to so-called feature analytic models or frame representations. It is argued that frame-organized knowledge has a constraining function on the availability of alternatives and that frames entail implicit knowledge. Lack of knowledge may have the consequence of either too many or no alternatives in short-term memory during information search.A "frame-system framework" should be used as a conceptual tool for understanding cognitive processes during information seeking and decision making in computerized environments. The suggested framework is illustrated with empirical data from a psychological experiment with a textual data base.

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