title: Elicitation
text: # Elicitation
  
  Elicitation may refer to:
  
  * Collecting intelligence information from people as part of human intelligence (intelligence gathering)
  * Elicitation technique or elicitation procedure, any of various data collection techniques in social sciences or other fields to gather knowledge or information from people
  * Expert elicitation, the synthesis of opinions of experts on a subject where there is uncertainty due to insufficient data
  * Multiple EM for Motif Elicitation, a tool for discovering motifs in a group of related DNA or protein sequences
  * Preference elicitation, the problem of developing a decision support system capable of generating recommendations to a user, thus assisting him in decision making
  * Requirements elicitation, the practice of obtaining the requirements of a system from users, customers and other stakeholders
  * Zaltman metaphor elicitation technique, a patented market research tool
  