Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
11-19-1995
Technical Report Number
PCS-TR96-255
Abstract
This paper presents a customizable architecture for software agents that capture and access information in large, heterogeneous, distributed electronic repositories. The key idea is to exploit underlying structure at various levels of granularity to build high-level indices with task-specific interpretations. Information agents construct such indices and are configured as a network of reusable modules called structure detectors and segmenters. We illustrate our architecture with the design and implementation of smart information filters in two contexts: retrieving stock market data from Internet newsgroups, and retrieving technical reports from Internet ftp sites.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Rus, Daniela and Subramanian, Devika, "Information retrieval, information structure, and information agents" (1995). Computer Science Technical Report PCS-TR96-255. https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/cs_tr/125