A Personal News Agent that Talks, Learns and Explains. Billsus, D. & Pazzani, M. In Autonomous Agents 99, Seattle, 1999.
A Personal News Agent that Talks, Learns and Explains [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
Research on intelligent information agents has recently attracted much attention. As the amount of information available online grows with astonishing speed, people feel overwhelmed navigating through today's information and media landscape. Information overload is no longer just a popular buzzword, but a daily reality for most of us. This leads to a clear demand for automated methods, commonly referred to as intelligent information agents, that locate and retrieve information with respect to users individual preferences. As intelligent information agents aim to automatically adapt to individual users, the development of appropriate user modeling techniques is of central importance. Algorithms for intelligent information agents typically draw on work from the Information Retrieval (IR) and machine learning communities. Both communities have previously explored the potential of established algorithms for user modeling purposes (Belkin et al. 1997; Webb 1998). However, work in this field is still in its infancy and we see \emph\p̌hantom\User Modeling for Intelligent Information Accessp̌hantom\\ as an important area for future research.
@inproceedings{Billsus:99,
	address = {Seattle},
	title = {A {Personal} {News} {Agent} that {Talks}, {Learns} and {Explains}},
	url = {http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/asum99/billsus.html},
	abstract = {Research on intelligent information agents has
recently attracted much attention. As the amount of
information available online grows with astonishing
speed, people feel overwhelmed navigating through
today's information and media landscape. Information
overload is no longer just a popular buzzword, but a
daily reality for most of us. This leads to a clear
demand for automated methods, commonly referred to as
intelligent information agents, that locate and
retrieve information with respect to users individual
preferences. As intelligent information agents aim to
automatically adapt to individual users, the
development of appropriate user modeling techniques is
of central importance. Algorithms for intelligent
information agents typically draw on work from the
Information Retrieval (IR) and machine learning
communities. Both communities have previously explored
the potential of established algorithms for user
modeling purposes (Belkin et al. 1997; Webb 1998).
However, work in this field is still in its infancy and
we see {\textbackslash}emph\{\vphantom{\}}User Modeling for Intelligent Information
Access\vphantom{\{}\} as an important area for future research.},
	booktitle = {Autonomous {Agents} 99},
	author = {Billsus, Daniel and Pazzani, Michael},
	year = {1999},
	keywords = {Information Agents, human-computer interaction, maschine learning, user modeling},
}

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