Cognitive Automation

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The identification, assessment, and application of available machine learning algorithms for the purpose of leveraging domain knowledge and reasoning to further automate the machine learning already present in a manner that may be thought of as cognitive. With cognitive automation, the system performs corrective actions driven by knowledge of the underlying analytics tool itself, iterates its own automation approaches and algorithms for more expansive or more thorough analysis, and is thereby able to fulfill its purpose. The automation of the cognitive process refines itself and dynamically generates novel hypotheses that it can likewise assess against its existing corpus and other information resources.

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IEEE Guide for Terms and Concepts in Intelligent Process Automation1 senseview framework →

§1: The identification, assessment, and application of available machine learning algorithms for the purpose of leveraging domain knowledge and reasoning to further automate the machine learning already present in a manner that may be thought of as cognitive. With cognitive automation, the system performs corrective actions driven by knowledge of the underlying analytics tool itself, iterates its own automation approaches and algorithms for more expansive or more thorough analysis, and is thereby able to fulfill its purpose. The automation of the cognitive process refines itself and dynamically generates novel hypotheses that it can likewise assess against its existing corpus and other information resources.

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§1 · legacy_primary: The identification, assessment, and application of available machine learning algorithms for the purpose of leveraging domain knowledge and reasoning to further automate the machine learning already present in a manner that may be thought of as cognitive. With cognitive automation, the system performs corrective actions driven by knowledge of the underlying analytics tool itself, iterates its own automation approaches and algorithms for more expansive or more thorough analysis, and is thereby able to fulfill its purpose. The automation of the cognitive process refines itself and dynamically generates novel hypotheses that it can likewise assess against its existing corpus and other information resources.
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