Training Course: Introduction to Knowledge Engineering

Rocket Software offers an 'Introduction to Knowledge Engineering' course, specifically tailored to organizations that intend to maintain and optimize their Rocket AeroText knowledge bases. Upon completion of the course, students will gain a thorough understanding of pattern matching theory as applied by Visual AeroText. The course will enable students to independently modify and maintain AeroText knowledge bases and optimize the solution to their specific needs.

Skills learned in the course include:

  • Basic pattern matching theory
  • AeroText terminology
  • Answer key development
  • Knowledge base metrics analysis
  • AeroText IDE usage
  • Knowledge base troubleshooting
  • Knowledge base statistics analysis
  • The course has no prerequisites.

Starting Monday October 20, 2008 Rocket Software, Inc. will host a five day training class on Rocket AeroText at the Rocket Software, Inc. corporate headquarters in Newton, MA.

Topics covered in the course are:

Day One

What is AeroText?
Introduction to the IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
Analyzing Knowledge Base Metrics

Day Two

Understanding AeroText Terminology and Architecture
Pattern Matching Theory and Concepts

Day Three

AeroText Architecture and Terminology Review
AeroText Advanced Topics
Troubleshooting a Knowledge Base

Days Four & Five

'Real world' hands-on project using recent press releases. The class will be divided into two groups and each team will develop a knowledge base, from the ground up, capable of identify six entities within the press release material. Teams will then assess their KB performance against a 'blind' set of documents. This exercise draws upon the broad array of skills acquired over the preceding days and results in participants producing a viable AeroText KB solution which is scored for accuracy and precision.

Over the course of the five days, we aim to conduct the following hand-on labs:

1. AeroText trial use exercises

Single document processing
Single document scoring
IDE single document properties
Batch processing
Batch scoring
Batch regression
IDE batch properties

2. AeroText answer keys

Answer key: labeling entities
Answer key: labeling identities
Answer key: merge records wizard
Answer key: labeling relations
Using the new answer key

3. AeroText knowledge base development exercises

Create the project file
Create the rulebase and action procedure
Create a package and an action
Create features & elements to support pattern development
Create rules for the examples
Assign the rule to the records
Create other slots for the records
Create rules for remaining examples
Disabled rule

4. AeroText knowledge base extension exercises

Print debug info to console
Set up equivalency
Using a subset of the matched region
Person name package
Make a negative rule
Attaching caches & creating links
Batch wizard
IDE batch scorer

5. Troubleshooting a knowledge base, analyzing knowledge base statistics

Process region with debugging and analyze region
Trace cache disambiguation
Enable rule watch
Analyzing rulebase statistics

Tuition for the 5 day class is $2,000/person.

To enroll or for any additional information, please contact Nicole White at 617.614.2119 or email: nwhite@rs.com

Thanks, we hope to see you there!