The InfoFinder agent: Learning user interests through heuristic phrase extraction

IEEE Expert-Intelligent Systems and their Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 22-27

  Krulwich, Bruce ^a   Burkey, Chad ^b  

^a AgentSoft Ltd   (Israel)

^b ACCENTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

HEURISTIC PHRASE EXTRACTION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031236550     PISSN: 08859000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/64.621224     Document Type: Article

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