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Importing documents into a knowledge base

Many users land up wanting to import sentences in the Linguist rather than type or paste them in one at a time.  One way to do this is to right click on a group within the Linguist and import a file of sentences, one per line, into that group.  But if you want to import a large document and retain its outline structure, some application-specific use of the Linguist APIs may be the way to go.

We’ve written up how to import a whole web site  on California Sales & Use Tax:
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Elicitation and Management of Rules, Requirements and Decisions

A manager of an enterprise architecture group recently asked me how to train business analysts to elicit or harvest rules effectively. We talked for a bit about the similarities in skills between rules and requirements and agreed that analysts will fail to understand rules as they fail to understand requirements.

For example, just substitute rules in the historical distribution of requirements failures:[1]

  • 34% Incorrect requirements
  • 24% Inadequate requirements
  • 22% Ambiguous requirements
  • 9% Inconsistent requirements
  • 4% Poor scoping of requirements
  • 4% Transcription errors in requirements
  • 3% New or changing requirements

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