Abstract

We present a question-answering approach where a user without any programming skills can build information agents by simply answering a series of questions. These resulting agents can perform fairly complex tasks that involve retrieving, filtering integrating and monitoring data from online sources. We evaluated our approach to building agents, which is implemented in a system called the Agent Wizard, by re-implementing a set of agents for monitoring travel that originally took four programmers roughly four days to implement. Using the Agent Wizard, the entire set of agents can be implemented in under 35 minutes.

Date

January 13, 2004

Authors

Rattapoom Tuchinda, Craig A Knoblock

Book

Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Pages

340-342