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Dendral

Dendral was a project in artificial intelligence (AI) of the 1960s, and the computer software expert system that it produced. Its primary aim was to study hypothesis formation and discovery in science. For that, a specific task in science was chosen: help organic chemists in identifying unknown organic molecules, by analyzing their mass spectra and using…

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Dendral

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Triples109
Avg. degree1.95
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related to References · 62
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related to Heuristic Dendral · 14
Dendral → As, Dennis Smith, For, H2O, Harold Brown, Heuristic Dendral, It, Jim Nourse, Lederberg, Moreover, New, Ray Carhart, The CONGEN, Thus
related to Heuristics · 12
Dendral → Artificial, As Herbert, George Polya’s, Heuristics, How, It, Mathematical Method, New Aspect, Simon, Solve It, The, The Sciences
related to Plan-generate-test paradigm · 8
Dendral → CONGEN, Heuristic Dendral, However, Last, Meta-Dendral, The, This, When
related to Meta-Dendral · 5
Dendral → Heuristic Dendral, Meta-Dendral, The, These, Thus
is a · 4
Dendral → acronym of the term, machine learning system that receives the set of possible chemical structures and corresponding mass spectra as input, performance system and Meta-Dendral is a learning system, program that uses mass spectra or other experimental data together with a knowledge base of chemistry to produce a set of possible chemical structures that may be responsible fo…
related to Knowledge Engineering · 3
Dendral → The, This, Thus

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Dendralis aprogram that uses mass spectra or other experimental data together with a knowledge base of chemistry to produce a set of possible chemical structures that may be responsible fo…0.90text
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Dendralis aperformance system and Meta-Dendral is a learning system0.90text
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Dendralrelated to Heuristic DendralHeuristic Dendral0.60section
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