Learning to Understand Information on the Internet: An Example-Based Approach

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 133-153

  Perkowitz, Mike ^a   Doorenbos, Robert B ^a   Etzioni, Oren ^a   Weld, Daniel S ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM TRANSLATORS; QUERY LANGUAGES; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE PACKAGES; INTERNET;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031098776     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008672508721     Document Type: Article

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