Enriching Information Agents’ Knowledge by Ontology Comparison: A Case Study (original) (raw)

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This work presents an approach in which user profiles,represented by ontologies that were learned by an interface agent,are compared to foster collaboration for information retrieval from the web. It is shown how the interface agent represents the knowledge about the user along with the profiles that were empirically developed. Departing from a specific matching model,briefly presented here,quan titative results were achieved by comparing such particular ontologies in a fully automatic way. The results are presented and their implications are discussed. We argue that an agent’s knowledge can be enriched by other agents navigation experiences,p ossibly helping in connecting and reconciliating distinct knowledge views while preserving a degree of privacy.

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  1. Laboratório de Técnicas Inteligentes, Escola Polit’ecnica da Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto,158 tv. 3, 05508-900, São Paulo,SP, Brazil
    Gustavo A. Giménez-Lugo & Analia Amandi
  2. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas - ISISTAN Research Institute, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Prov. de Bs. As, C.P. 7000, Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Jaime Simão Sichman & Daniela Godoy

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  1. Gustavo A. Giménez-Lugo
  2. Analia Amandi
  3. Jaime Simão Sichman
  4. Daniela Godoy

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  1. Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, Emilio Vargas 6, 28043, Madrid, Spain
    Francisco J. Garijo
  2. Dpto. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Sevilla, ETS Ingeniería Informática, 41012, Seville, Spain
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Giménez-Lugo, G.A., Amandi, A., Simão Sichman, J., Godoy, D. (2002). Enriching Information Agents’ Knowledge by Ontology Comparison: A Case Study. In: Garijo, F.J., Riquelme, J.C., Toro, M. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence — IBERAMIA 2002. IBERAMIA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2527. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36131-6\_56

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