NTM-Agent: text mining agent for net auction

Net auctions have been widely utilized with the recent development of the Internet. However, there are too many items for bidders to select the most suitable. We aim at supporting bidders on net auctions by automatically generating a table containing features of items for comparison. We constructed a system called NTM-Agent (Net Auction Text Mining Agent). The system collects information of items, filters the items which are different from the user´s target, and extracts their features from their text information by text mining methods. It then generates a table containing extracted features.