A Survey on Knowledge Base: An Internal Platform to Exchange Technical Questions and Related Answers

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A Survey on Knowledge Base: An Internal Platform to Exchange
Technical Questions and Related Answers
Riza Tanaz Fareed1, Sushmitha N2
1Student, Department of Information Science and Engineering, R V College of Engineering, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science and Engineering, R V College of Engineering, India
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Abstract - This paper describes the development of a
knowledge base which is an internal platform to exchange
technical questions and related answers. Organizations can
save a lot of time by answering queries on a sharable
platform. Knowledge bases are said to be developed through
the process of adding specialized application knowledge to
documentation. By creating a reusable knowledge base, it
extends the process of sharing knowledge in a single
repository or system and enables quicker replies by anyone
experienced in the field. Other than traditional methods like
relying on personally sending messages and emails,
questions and related answers can be answered on one
platform.
Key Words: Knowledge base, React JS, Stack Overflow,
User Interface, JavaScript
1.INTRODUCTION
Technological advancements will bring knowledge to
more and more disparate locations. It is easy to lose track
of information in emails, social media interactions, forum
discussions, comments, tickets, and even in the minds of
people. In a knowledge base, users can look up
information about various products, services,
departments, or topics on a self-serve website.
Knowledge bases can be populated with data from
anywhere. They are usually expanded and enhanced by
contributors with expertise in the relevant subjects.
Essentially, knowledge bases are encyclopedias that have
been extended. Access to accurate information is expected
and demanded in today's connected world. Often, they are
unwilling to call on the phone to do so, or send out emails
or a service ticket. It is important to them that they receive
an immediate response. You therefore require a broad, in-
depth body of information, the knowledge base.
Knowledge bases are said to be developed through the
process of adding specialized application knowledge to
documentation. Inquiries with the same intent are mapped
to the same response on a user-friendly platform, which
aims to transform a variety of questions that customers
may have into. Support members have the option of asking
new queries or researching previously requested ones. If
support personnel have had thorough training on a
module or if readily accessible documentation is available,
the majority of client questions and problems can be
resolved by them.
There are many advantages with knowledge bases which
follow rules, they are listed below:
● Acquiring and maintaining: A developer need not
maintain facts. The user can collect all the rules
and acquire it themselves. Taking an example,
when a user infers about a particular topic, he can
use the knowledge base to clarify any doubts
relating to that particular topic.
● User participation: Increases user participation
and encourages more developers and support to
ask and answer questions which automatically
builds the knowledge base further.
● Justification: By detaching the knowledge, an
engine which is used to infer can be constructed.
This engine can get innovative and fresh results
and strategies to the developers and support by
allowing it to be stored in the knowledge base.
2. BACKGROUND
2.1 The Knowledge Base
Data can be got into the knowledge base from any website,
one's own memory about a subject. As and when a
developer keeps adding solutions to the users query, the
knowledge base keeps automatically getting generated.
Knowledge bases are said to be developed through the
process of adding specialized application knowledge to
documentation. The main purpose of this project is to
create a platform where the support team and developers
of an organization may share information. The goal is to
provide a single platform for developers and the Tekion
Support staff to ask and answer queries. It enables easy
access to knowledge by looking up and solving doubts on
one platform. It saves time by allowing engineers to
answer inquiries on this platform rather than via email or
Slack. The knowledge base includes explanation with
reasoning as well as a major chunk of learning by one self.
Developers and support can ask and answer questions on
this platform as well as remember information that they

have forgotten by referring to the knowledge base. The
methodology for implementing this project can be broadly
divided into different tasks as follows
1. Research & Understanding the current
Knowledge Base Domain: It is vitally necessary
to comprehend contemporary technology. The
first step is to understand the requirements of the
users (developers and support).
2. Designing a UI with the help of forms: The
required UI is made using a coding platform -
Visual Studio code. The FormBuilder component
is used for creating fields like subscribed tags,
daily subscribed tags and weekly subscribed tags.
These tags use an Async MultiSelect renderer to
render the tags on the screen. Infinite scroller is
used to render all the tags. The tags are deletable
and the necessary CSS is used for styling. Form
validators are used for all the fields. Features like
“Ask Question” contain multiple ways through
which developers can ask questions which include
code blocks, tags, images, etc. The home page
includes the newest and top questions asked.
Questions can be commented on and bookmarked
according to the user's requirement.
3. Adding features to the form: Features like Async
MultiSelect, MultiSelectField,
DropDownInputField renderers are used to
render the components on the screen.
4. Adding Notification: To receive notifications,
tags need to be subscribed to. Notifications are
enabled every time a developer/support:
● Answers a question - new answers and
upvotes
● Mentions someone in a comment
● Comments on the question
● The notifications are provided through
emails or slackbots.
5. Integration of all pages & testing: After
integrating all the APIs to the UI, all the pages of
the application are integrated and run together.
This is done using the history.pop() which allows
you to go to the previous page accessed and
history.push() function.
Fig -1: General structure of the Knowledge Base using
ReactJS
2.2 The User Interface
The user interface enables the user to interact with the
knowledge base. Through different pages designed in the
application, the developer or support can post his queries,
interact with and expand the knowledge base. Using React
a UI can be made, which is easier to debug.
● A landing page: A landing page of the application
to enter queries and display them in an organized
fashion.
● Asking a question page: A detailed information
entering page where the developer or support can
ask questions in any form, like video, text, images,
code block, etc.
● Navigation: buttons, checkboxes, radio groups
should be provided in order to navigate through
different pages and save changes accordingly.
● Notifications: Notifications can be sent in
through emails which includes a daily and weekly
digest and slack for organizations.
3. EXISTING MODELS
This section examines a variety of existing systems for the
usage of the knowledge base in various fields and shows
how they can make a significant difference
3.1 Ontology-based intelligent retrieval system
for soil knowledge
The author in this paper [1] talks about how the internet
has become extremely popular and everyone reaches out
to it for retrieving information. He talks about how
gathering and quick retrieval of information using
ontology is an efficient and the latest way to search for
things on the internet. Here, a knowledge base is built for
agricultural chemistry which mainly focuses on helping
the farmers know more about soil and get information
about it easily. By building a user interface using XML and
JSP, they have successfully built a knowledge base. As and
when a user enters anything into the knowledge base, the

web page will give an informative and intellectual way of
retrieving information. This system is also reusable for
other applications and users.
3.2 A Knowledge-Based Approach for Detecting
Misuses in RFID Systems
In this paper, the authors talk about whether it is possible
to use ontology for the concept of vulnerability scanning in
order to replicate RFID objects. Using a knowledge base
for the RFID system, made it clearer and easier to
understand all scenarios of replicating tags. This method is
highly reliable and improves ease of work by updating the
knowledge base. There was one issue discovered, which
was the time taken for the response of the MDS but there
was a positive response for overall execution of the MDS.
3.3 Present day web-development using ReactJS
This thesis [1] describes a comparative assessment of
several applications built in different frameworks in order
to get applications which work in a more efficient manner.
This analyses has recently been used and has increased in
usage of applications. Using the frameworks existing in
Javascript, it helps in better usage, seamless integration
and uses more efficient technologies to help the
programmer. Usually in an organisation, it is up to the
project lead as to which framework to use.
3.4 The Knowledge-Based Design of Educational
Technology
In Present Day Web-Development using ReactJS [2]
ReactJS is a part based library which is conveyed for the
advancement of intelligent UIs. Presently it is the most
famous front-end JS library. It consolidates the view (V)
layer in M-V-C (Model View Controller) design. It is
bolstered by Facebook, Instagram and a network of
individual designers and associations. Respond
fundamentally empowers advancement of enormous and
complex online applications which can change its
information without ensuing page revives. It focuses to
furnish better client encounters and with blasting quick
and powerful web applications advancement. ReactJS can
likewise coordinate with other JavaScript components or
structures in MVC, for example, AngularJS.
3.5 Current approaches to handling imperfect
information in data and knowledge bases
Styling web applications using text weights, different
colours, dimensions like height and width use cascading
style sheets which basically are used to design and make
web applications more appealing. In this paper [3] the
author describes how to use cascading style sheets in
react. We can write CSS using inline functions or as
separate files. Using CSS Modules is very advantageous
over normal CSS sheets. CSS can be implemented through
many libraries in JavaScript.
3.6 Building a Knowledge Base on Research-
Practice Partnerships: Introduction to the Special
Topic Collection
This thesis [4] was aimed at learning more about JS based
frontend for developing applications. There are multiple
frameworks and packages available for the task of
frontend development one of them being ReactJS. ReactJS
was developed by Meta and is proven to be one of the best
performing rendering libraries till date. The thesis also
focuses on the view component of Model View Controller
and how its used in application development of varied
scales.
3.7 Stack Overflow – Informal learning and the
global expansion of professional development
and opportunities in programming
In the present age, there is a lot of backlash in the
educational systems for not being a reliable source for
teaching since learning and grasping information is not the
most important foundation for teaching [6]. As an
alternative, virtual technology has come to be a very
effective way of promoting learning by using software that
encourages students to grasp content in a more efficient
manner. Since virtual learning has been on the rise since
the pandemic hit, online and offline methods have been
used to teach. This paper also includes figures and tables
which show knowledge based learning which helps in
better documentation.
3.8 How to ask for technical help? Evidence-
based guidelines for writing questions on Stack
Overflow
Stack Overflow has evolved to be a sensation among
developers across the globe, with programmers from
diverse backgrounds. Also the user base has increased
with more coders coming from little to no experience.
Stack Overflow provides a platform for new learners to
post doubts in coding, and get quick and effective
solutions to them. Also ways to optimize the programme
can be learnt from the platform.
3.9 React – A JavaScript library for building user
interfaces
Current techniques to dealing with faulty data in data and
knowledge bases [8] examines strategies for representing
and reasoning with faulty data. It begins with an attempt
to categorise the various sorts of imperfection that may
exist in data, followed by a discussion of the sources of
such defects. The classification is then used as a
framework for thinking about work expressly concerned
with the representation of imperfect information, as well
as related work on how flawed information might be
utilised as a basis for reasoning. The work reviewed comes
both from the field of databases and the domain of

artificial intelligence. Both of these fields have long been a
concern with the challenges that arise as a result of faulty
knowledge, and this paper emphasises the connections
between the methodologies adopted in each.
4. CONCLUSION
The Knowledge Base is an internal application which
establishes a peer-to-peer network of the developers and
support staff. It helps in accessing answers to commonly
arising technical questions such as installation barriers
and unknown technical paradigms. It also provides an
exposure to the user to approach the community seeking
help by posting the questions in The Knowledge Base. The
communication between peers which used to be one-to-
one is brought to a single platform. This helps in reducing
the friction in the communication and resolve the barriers
for a smooth development process. Users can access the
content present in The Knowledge Base by searching or
subscribing tags and also contribute to the community by
answering questions. The support staff can use The
Knowledge Base to search through the problem statement
and quickly access multiple solutions and guide the
customers.
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