Gaz-guide: Agent-mediated information retrieval for official gazettes

Jyi Shane Liu, Von Won Soo, Chia Ning Chiang, Chen Yu Lee, Chun Yu Lin

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Abstract

Information retrieval tasks concerns with leading the user to those documents that best match his/her information needs. We consider missing concepts and wrong terms in user query as the fundamental problem of information retrieval. We propose a multiagent system that assists information retrieval by mediating the user.s information needs and the semantic structure of the data domain. The multiagent system embeds both ontology and thesauri to traverse different cognitive spaces. During an interactive process, the user.s query is transformed and led to appropriate semantic constructs that enable effective retrieval. We consider the data domain of government official gazettes. A prototype system, Gaz-Guide, has been developed and experiments are conducted by recording system response to real users with practical questions. The initial results show encouraging sign of the utility and effectiveness of Gaz- Guide in articulating domain resources on thesauri and ontology and guiding users with interactive assistance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Agents
Subtitle of host publicationSpecification, Modeling and Applications - 4th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2001, Proceedings
EditorsSoe-Tsyr Yuan, Makoto Yokoo
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages154-167
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)3540424342, 9783540424345
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001
Externally publishedYes
Event4th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2001 - Taipei, Taiwan
Duration: 28 07 200129 07 2001

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2132
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2001
Country/TerritoryTaiwan
CityTaipei
Period28/07/0129/07/01

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Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001.

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