Paper Info
Title
Knowledge Agents on the Web
Abstract
This paper introduces and evaluates a new paradigm, called Knowledge Agents, that incorporates agent technology into the process of domainspecific Web search. An agent is situated between the user and a search engine. It specializes in a specific domain by extracting characteristic information from search results. Domains are thus user-defined and can be of any granularity and specialty. This information is saved in a knowledge base and used in future searches. Queries are refined by the agent based on its domain-specific knowledge and the refined queries are sent to general purpose search engines. The search results are ranked based on the agent’s domain specific knowledge, thus filtering out pages which match the query but are irrelevant to the domain. A topological search of the Web for additional relevant sites is conducted from a domain-specific perspective. The combination of a broad search of the entire Web with domain-specific textual and topological scoring of results, enables the knowledge agent to find the most relevant documents for a given query within a domain of interest. The knowledge acquired by the agent is continuously updated and persistently stored thus users can benefit from search results of others in common domains.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1007/978-3-540-45012-2_3
CIA
Keywords
Field
DocType
knowledge agents,knowledge base,search engine
Data mining,Web search query,World Wide Web,Search engine,Information retrieval,Semantic search,Phrase search,Computer science,Web query classification,Knowledge-based systems,Knowledge base,Knowledge acquisition
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1860
0302-9743
3-540-67703-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
2.61
7
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yariv Aridor154766.78
David Carmel22530156.30
Ronny Lempel31273112.55
Aya Soffer41250169.37
Yoëlle S. Maarek536169.41