Table of Contents
Software Agents for Information Retrieval
Overview
Why Agents for IR?
Croft’s Top Ten List
The Number Two IR Problem
What’s an agent?
What is an agent? A brief tour of agent-space
What is a software agent?
So, what’s a software agent?
an emerging system-building paradigm
Software Agent Characteristics
Agent Characteristic: Adaptation
Agent Characteristic: Cooperation
Agent Characteristic: Autonomy
Agent Characteristic: Mobility?
Agent Characteristic: Intelligence?
What Do Agents Have To Do With Information Retrieval?
Agents for Information Retrieval
Information Retrieval and Agent Characteristics
Agent-Based Information Retrieval (ABIR) Mind Map
Knowbot ABIR Systems
Fab -- Adaptive IR
Collaborative Filtration Systems
Example: Firefly
Alexa
Proactive ABIR Systems
Example: Remembrance Agent
Example: Letizia
Example: TopicAGENTs
SysKill & Webert
Phoaks
Netbot Jango
Netbot Jango
Netbot Jango
Adding Semantic Information
URL agents
Example
Course Ontology
PPT Slide
CARROT: Cooperating Agent-based Routing and Retrieval of Text
PPT Slide
VR based visualization of retrieval
VR Approach
Visualizing a document space
Conclusions
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Author: Jim Mayfield
Email: finin@umbc.edu
Home Page: http://umbc.edu/~finin
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