NDLI: Exploiting a search engine to develop more flexible Web agents

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Shou-de Lin Knoblock, C.A.
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Shou-de Lin)
Abstract	With the rapid growth of the World Wide Web, more and more people rely on the online services to acquire and integrate information. However, it is time consuming to find the online services that are perfectly suited for a given task. First, the users might not have enough information to fill in the required input fields for querying an online service. Second, the online service might generate only partial information. Third, the user might only find the inverse version of the desired service. We propose a framework to develop flexible Web agents that handle these imperfect situations. In this framework we exploit a search engine as a general information discovery tool to assist finding and pruning information. To demonstrate this framework, we implemented two Web agents: the Internet inverse geocoder and the address lookup module.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Committee on Computational Intelligence (TCCI) Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Starting Page	54
Ending Page	60
File Size	367420
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769519326
DOI	10.1109/WI.2003.1241173
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-10-13
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computer science Databases Web and internet services Search engines Cities and towns Web sites Data mining
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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