An ontological interface agent for FAQ query processing

WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1400-1407

  Yang, Sheng Yuan ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Interface agents; Ontology; Template based processing; User modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ONTOLOGY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; USER INTERFACES;

INTERFACE AGENT; TEMPLATE-BASED LINGUISTIC PROCESSING; USER MODELING;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 38349108262     PISSN: 17900832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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