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Adaptive Information Extraction: Core Technologies for Information Agents

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Intelligent Information Agents

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For the purposes of this chapter, an information agent can be described as a distributed system that receives a goal through its user interface, gathers information relevant to this goal from a variety of sources, processes this content as appropriate, and delivers the results to the users. We focus on the second stage in this generic architecture. We survey a variety of information extraction techniques that enable information agents to automatically gather information from heterogeneous sources.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University College Dublin, Dublin

    Nicholas Kushmerick

  2. Institut für Informatik, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz-Landau

    Bernd Thomas

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  1. German Research Center for Artifical Intelligence Multiagent Systems Group, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Vignolese 905, 41100, Modena, Italy

    Sonia Bergamaschi

  3. Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen King’s College, AB24 5UE, Aberdeen, UK

    Pete Edwards

  4. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Schottengasse 3, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

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Kushmerick, N., Thomas, B. (2003). Adaptive Information Extraction: Core Technologies for Information Agents. In: Klusch, M., Bergamaschi, S., Edwards, P., Petta, P. (eds) Intelligent Information Agents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2586. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36561-3_4

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