knowledge engineer
a person who gathers knowledge and incorporates it into computer systems
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"But now dozens of technology start-ups are commercializing linguistics research, and competing to hire the relatively small pool of specialists on the topic, which isn't even taught at many U.S. universities. Suddenly, linguists have their pick of jobs as lexicographers, 'knowledge engineers' and 'vocabulary-resource managers.' "
(Daniel Golden in "No Longer Just Eggheads, Linguists Leap to the Net," The Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2000)
(Daniel Golden in "No Longer Just Eggheads, Linguists Leap to the Net," The Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2000)
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WORDWISE: Knowledge engineers are suddenly in demand at dot com companies, but the job title itself isn't all that new. It emerged in the early 1980s when the rage to create expert systems hit full force. Expert systems are a subset of artificial intelligence. They're computer programs that make decisions within a narrow field of study. Those decisions are based on a massive database of knowledge and rules gleaned from experts in the field. It's the knowledge engineer's job to codify this data so it can be used by the program.
