Communications of the ACM
Compilers: principles, techniques, and tools
Compilers: principles, techniques, and tools
Term-weighting approaches in automatic text retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Learning internal representations by error propagation
Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure of cognition, vol. 1
The use of phrases and structured queries in information retrieval
SIGIR '91 Proceedings of the 14th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The Utility of Knowledge in Inductive Learning
Machine Learning
Theory refinement combining analytical and empirical methods
Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge-based artificial neural networks
Artificial Intelligence
Some advances in transformation-based part of speech tagging
AAAI '94 Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 1)
Creating advice-taking reinforcement learners
Machine Learning - Special issue on reinforcement learning
Improved boosting algorithms using confidence-rated predictions
COLT' 98 Proceedings of the eleventh annual conference on Computational learning theory
Dynamic reference sifting: a case study in the homepage domain
Selected papers from the sixth international conference on World Wide Web
An instructable, adaptive interface for discovering and monitoring information on the World-Wide Web
IUI '99 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
An Algorithm that Learns What‘s in a Name
Machine Learning - Special issue on natural language learning
Learning Information Extraction Rules for Semi-Structured and Free Text
Machine Learning - Special issue on natural language learning
Learning users' interests by unobtrusively observing their normal behavior
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
A framework for specifying explicit bias for revision of approximate information extraction rules
Proceedings of the sixth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Wrapper induction: efficiency and expressiveness
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on Intelligent internet systems
Finding out about: a cognitive perspective on search engine technology and the WWW
Finding out about: a cognitive perspective on search engine technology and the WWW
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
Learning to Predict by the Methods of Temporal Differences
Machine Learning
A Theory-Refinement Approach to Information Extraction
ICML '01 Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
Constructing Biological Knowledge Bases by Extracting Information from Text Sources
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Relational learning techniques for natural language information extraction
Relational learning techniques for natural language information extraction
Machine learning for information extraction in informal domains
Machine learning for information extraction in informal domains
Building intelligent agents that learn to retrieve and extract information
Building intelligent agents that learn to retrieve and extract information
Intelligent Web agents that learn to retrieve and extract information
Intelligent exploration of the web
Letizia: an agent that assists web browsing
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Representing sentence structure in hidden Markov models for information extraction
IJCAI'01 Proceedings of the 17th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Syskill & webert: Identifying interesting web sites
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Interactive Improvisational Music Companionship: A User-Modeling Approach
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
A Movie Recommendation System—An Application of Voting Theory in User Modeling
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Intelligent Web agents that learn to retrieve and extract information
Intelligent exploration of the web
Contextual relevance feedback in web information retrieval
IIiX Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Information interaction in context
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Complementing a Web-Based Pedagogical Agent with an Enhanced-Search Framework
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Towards Sustainable and Scalable Educational Innovations Informed by the Learning Sciences: Sharing Good Practices of Research, Experimentation and Innovation
A personalized system for conversational recommendations
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Modeling human behavior in user-adaptive systems: Recent advances using soft computing techniques
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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We present a system for rapidly and easily building instructable and self-adaptive software agents that retrieve and extract information. Our Wisconsin Adaptive Web Assistant (WAWA) constructs intelligent agents by accepting user preferences in the form of instructions. These user-provided instructions are compiled into neural networks that are responsible for the adaptive capabilities of an intelligent agent. The agent's neural networks are modified via user-provided and system-constructed training examples. Users can create training examples by rating Web pages (or documents), but more importantly WAWA's agents uses techniques from reinforcement learning to internally create their own examples. Users can also provide additional instruction throughout the life of an agent. Our experimental evaluations on a `home-page finder' agent and a `seminar-announcement extractor' agent illustrate the value of using instructable and adaptive agents for retrieving and extracting information.