Development of Parallel Knowledge Acquisition System

知识获取能力对各种科学和工业活动的发展有着重要的影响。知识的质量和知识获取过程的效率是这些活动的关键。一个群体或社会如果在信息处理活动中具有这样的知识获取能力，就有可能获得巨大的进步，知识获取活动被认为是一种只有人类才能完成的活动。然而，近年来，计算学习技术和人工智能正在实现信息系统代替人类进行知识获取活动。本课题通过以上技术实现了以下几个方面的研究.并行知识获取范式.设计并实现了一个基于上述范式的并行知识获取系统，利用该系统进行了多个知识获取的计算实验，特别是对DNA和氨基酸序列的知识获取。结果非常成功。按照计划，该系统将通过东京大学人类基因组中心向Joshuich开放。

The ability of knowledge acquision has strong effects on the developments of various scientific and industrial activities. The quality of the knowledge and the efficiency of the knowledge acquisition procedure are keys to these activities. A group or society with the such knowledge acquisition ability in information processing activities may be promised a big advance.The knowledge acquision activity is regarded as an activity which can be done by only human beings. Recently, however, computational learning technologies and artificial intelligence is realizing information systems which can play the knowledge acquisition activity instead of human beings. This research project has attained the following items by the above technologies.1. Paradigm of parallel knowledge acquisition.2. Design and development of a parallel knowledge acquisition system based on the above paradigm.With this system, we have made several computational experiments on knowledge acqusition, especially for DNA and amino acid sequences. The results were very successful. It is scheduled that this system will be open to publich via Human Genome Center of the University of Tokyo.