An evaluation of text analysis technologies
AI Magazine
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Document filtering with inference networks
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Combining classifiers in text categorization
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A scalable comparison-shopping agent for the World-Wide Web
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Designing behaviors for information agents
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Task environment centered simulation
Simulating organizations
Efficient information gathering on the Internet
FOCS '96 Proceedings of the 37th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Reflection and action under scarce resources: theoretical principles and empirical study
IJCAI'89 Proceedings of the 11th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
IJCAI'91 Proceedings of the 12th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
CRYSTAL inducing a conceptual dictionary
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Complex goal criteria and its application in design-to-criteria scheduling
AAAI'97/IAAI'97 Proceedings of the fourteenth national conference on artificial intelligence and ninth conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
The UMASS intelligent home project
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Toward robust agent control in open environments
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Anytime algorithm for agent-mediated merchant information gathering
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Reflections on the Nature of Multi-Agent Coordination and Its Implications for an Agent Architecture
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Resource-Bounded Searches in an Information Marketplace
IEEE Internet Computing
Establishing a Taxonomy of Quality for Use in Information Filtering
BNCOD 19 Proceedings of the 19th British National Conference on Databases: Advances in Databases
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Effective information gathering on the WWW is a complex task requiring planning, scheduling, text processing, and interpretation-style reasoning about extracted data to resolve inconsistencies and to refine hypotheses about the data. This paper describes the rationale, architecture, and implementation of a next generation information gathering system - a system that integrates several areas of AI research under a single research umbrella. The goal of this system is to exploit the vast number of information sources available today on the NII including a growing number of digital libraries, independent news agencies, government agencies, as well as human experts providing a variety of services. The large number of information sources and their different levels of accessibility, reliability and associated costs present a complex information gathering coordination problem. Our solution is an information gathering agent, BIG, that plans to gather information to support a decision process, reasons about the resource tradeoffs of different possible gathering approaches, extracts information from both unstructured and structured documents. and uses the extracted information to refine its search and processing activities.