background knowledge

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Background knowledge is information that is necessary to understand a situation or a problem. This can be general knowledge and knowledge of the world and society , which is necessary to cope with everyday life. However, it can also be specialist , insider or expert knowledge that is required to answer problems and questions in a particular subject. Background knowledge can be an expression of competence and can be obtained through research. In a certain environment, for example in discussions , it can be assumed to be known. For example, if you say, “The neighbour's dog didn't let me sleep tonight!”, It can be assumed that the dog barked so loudly that it was impossible to sleep.

Background knowledge and artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence systems must first be “trained” to more or less powerful equivalents to the diffuse general background knowledge of human interaction partners. It is therefore necessary for people evident facts such as the following are "explained" only:

• When Abraham Lincoln was in Washington, his left foot was also in Washington.
• His children were always younger than him.
• After his death he remained dead, even if his pronunciations are passed on.

Background knowledge in data processing

In digital data processing, background knowledge contrasts with foreground knowledge. Foreground knowledge is interpreted in connection with background knowledge. In fact, the entire World Wide Web can be used as a source of background knowledge through datagathering . In the Semantic Web or Linked Open Data Cloud , links are provided from background knowledge; the DBpedia and Geo Names data sets represent the most important sources of general background knowledge in the Linked Open Data Cloud.

See also

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem (WordNet 3.1 [1] )
2. ↑ cf. Use in the examples of the vocabulary archive link ( memento of the original from May 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ The Linking Open Data cloud diagram [2]