{"id":14835,"date":"2017-06-29T10:47:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T10:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/knowledge-representation\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T17:09:10","slug":"knowledge-representation","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/32594\/knowledge-representation","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge Representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_knowledge_representation_mean\">What Does Knowledge Representation Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The field of knowledge representation involves considering artificial intelligence and how it presents some sort of knowledge, usually regarding a closed system. IT professionals and others may monitor and evaluate an artificial intelligence system to get a better idea of its simulation of human knowledge, or its role in presenting the data about focus input.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_knowledge_representation\">Techopedia Explains Knowledge Representation<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Scientists from MIT\u2019s AI Lab talk about knowledge representation as \u201ca set of ontological commitments \u2013 a fragmented theory of intelligent reasoning\u201d and \u201ca simulation of a medium of human expression.\u201d Some call knowledge representation a \u201csurrogate\u201d for some form of human correspondence or communication regarding a system. 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