Intelligent Agents for Web-based Tasks: An Advice-Taking Approach

Intelligent Agents for Web-based Tasks: An Advice-Taking Approach (1998)

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by Jude Shavlik , Tina Elassi-Rad

Venue:	In AAAI/ICML Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization
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TITLE	Intelligent Agents for Web-based Tasks: An Advice-Taking Approach	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Jude Shavlik	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	University of Wisconsin-Madison	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR ADDR	1210 W. Dayton Street; Madison, Wisconsin 53706	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Tina Elassi-Rad	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	University of Wisconsin-Madison	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR ADDR	1210 W. Dayton Street; Madison, Wisconsin 53706	user correction - Legacy Corrections
ABSTRACT	We present and evaluate an implemented system with which to rapidly and easily build intelligent software agents for Web-based tasks. Our design is centered around two basic functions: ScoreThisLink and ScoreThisPage. If given highly accurate such functions, standard heuristic search would lead to efficient retrieval of useful information. Our approach allows users to tailor our system's behavior by providing approximate advice about the above functions. This advice is mapped into neural network implementations of the two functions. Subsequent reinforcements from the Web (e.g., dead links) and any ratings of retrieved pages that the user wishes to provide are, respectively, used to refine the link- and pagescoring functions. Hence, our architecture provides an appealing middle ground between nonadaptive agent programming languages and systems that solely learn user preferences from the user's ratings of pages. We describe our internal representation of Web pages, the major predicates ...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1998	INFERENCE
VENUE	In AAAI/ICML Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	63--70	INFERENCE
TECH	Tech. rep. WS-98-05	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	17 found	ParsCit 1.0