Software agents: completing patterns and constructing user interfaces

  • Authors:
  • Jeffrey C. Schlimmer;Leonard A. Hermens

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA;School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

To support the goal of allowing users to record and retrieve information, this paper describes an interactive note-taking system for pen-based computers with two distinctive features. First, it actively predicts what the user is going to write. Second, it automatically constructs a custom, button-box user interface on request. The system is an example of a learning-apprentice software-agent. A machine learning component characterizes the syntax and semantics of the user's information. A performance system uses this learned information to generate completion strings and construct a user interface.