A system for building intelligent agents that learn to retrieve and extract information

User Modelling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 35-88

  Eliassi Rad, Tina ^a   Shavlik, Jude ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Information retrieval; Instructable and adaptive software agents; Machine learning; Neural networks; Web mining

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION EXTRACTION (IE);

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 0038548616     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024009718142     Document Type: Article

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