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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>In the late 1990s, the Decision Support Group at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Fribourg/kqYhdS11">University of Fribourg</a> developed a model for decision support software. This described the interface between data and models on one hand, and graphical interfaces for exploring them and making decisions on the other, as a knowledge engine.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> They also developed a mathematical modeling language, LPL, in concert with that work.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>With the rise of the semantic web, natural language processing, and topical knowledge bases, a number of other analytical tools have been categorized as knowledge engines, including in genomics (KnowEnG),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> modeling human action (PaStaNet),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> and speeding up general-purpose <a href="/facts/Question_answering/1gplmc6L">question answering</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>General-purpose search and discovery tools such as Wolfram Alpha have also described themselves as knowledge engines.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Knowledge_engineering/oQr2VuTu">Knowledge engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Knowledge_engineer/B1b2yIUk">Knowledge engineer</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Dicodess - A Software Framework for Developing Distributed Cooperative DSS". dicodess.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2020-07-14. <a href="http://dicodess.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://dicodess.sourceforge.net/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Building Model-Driven Decision Support Systems With Dicodess". vdf.ch. p. 110. Retrieved 2020-07-14. <a href="https://vdf.ch/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1407" target="_blank">https://vdf.ch/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1407</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"A Mathematical Modeling Language". lpl.unifr.ch. Retrieved 2020-07-14. <a href="http://lpl.unifr.ch/lpl/main.html" target="_blank">http://lpl.unifr.ch/lpl/main.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Sinha, Saurabh; Song, Jun; Weinshilboum, Richard; Jongeneel, Victor; Han, Jiawei (2015-11-01). "KnowEnG: a knowledge engine for genomics". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 22 (6): 1115–1119. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocv090. ISSN 1527-974X. PMC 5009907. PMID 26205246. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5009907" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5009907</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Li, Yong-Lu; Xu, Liang; Liu, Xinpeng; Huang, Xijie; Xu, Yue; Wang, Shiyi; Fang, Hao-Shu; Ma, Ze; Chen, Mingyang; Lu, Cewu (2020-04-21). "PaStaNet: Toward Human Activity Knowledge Engine". arXiv:2004.00945 [cs.CV]. <a href="/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Mabbu, Venkatesh; Asaduzzaman, Abu; Mridha, Muhammad F. (2016-05-01). "A novel semantic knowledge engine using automated knowledge extraction from World Wide Web". 2016 5th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision (ICIEV). pp. 316–321. doi:10.1109/ICIEV.2016.7760018. ISBN 978-1-5090-1269-5. S2CID 46446043. <a href="978-1-5090-1269-5" target="_blank">978-1-5090-1269-5</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Forget Search Engines: Web 3.0 Is a Knowledge Engine". Big Think. 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2020-07-14. <a href="https://bigthink.com/ideafeed/forget-search-engines-web-30-is-a-knowledge-engine" target="_blank">https://bigthink.com/ideafeed/forget-search-engines-web-30-is-a-knowledge-engine</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>