FAQ-master: An ontological multi-agent system for web FAQ services

WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 221-228

  Yang, Sheng Yuan ^a   Hsu, Chun Liang ^a   Lee, Dong Liang ^a   Deng, Lawrence Y ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Multi agent systems; Ontology; Proxy mechanism; User modeling; Website modeling

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING; RESEARCH; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; HIGH-QUALITY; INTELLIGENT RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENT WEB; PROXY MECHANISM; USER INFORMATION; USER MODELING; USER QUERIES; WEB SEARCHES; WEB SITE; WEB SITE CLASSIFICATION; WEBSITE MODELING;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 48849096967     PISSN: 17900832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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