DocumentCode
1532096
Title
The InfoFinder agent: learning user interests through heuristic phrase extraction
Author
Krulwich, Bruce ; Burkey, Chad
Author_Institution
AgentSoft Ltd., Jerusalem, Israel
Volume
12
Issue
5
fYear
1997
Firstpage
22
Lastpage
27
Abstract
The paper discusses InfoFinder, a system that uses several innovative approaches for learning user information interests from sets of messages or other online documents that users have classified. InfoFinder´s innovations leverage the unique aspects of learning from user-classified documents in a real-world setting. Users find Infofinder to be an accurate and valuable tool for finding information relating to ongoing interests
Keywords
heuristic programming; information needs; information retrieval; learning (artificial intelligence); software agents; InfoFinder; heuristic phrase extraction; information retrieval; innovative approaches; learning; messages; online documents; software agent; user interests; user-classified documents; Data mining; Explosives; Internet; Java; Machine learning; Maintenance; Search engines; Search methods; Technological innovation; Web sites;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
IEEE Expert
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0885-9000
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/64.621224
Filename
621224
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