Can user models be learned at all? Inherent problems in machine learning for user modelling

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-88

  Müller, Martin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES;

ADAPTIVE PROCESSES; ADAPTIVE USER INTERFACES (AUI); USER INTERACTIONS; USER MODELLING (UM);

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 18744387451     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888904000141     Document Type: Review

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