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An intelligent information agent for document title classification and filtering in document-intensive domains.

Song, Dawei; Lau, Raymond Y.K.; Bruza, Peter D.; Wong, Kam-Fai; Chen, Ding-Yi

Authors

Dawei Song

Raymond Y.K. Lau

Peter D. Bruza

Kam-Fai Wong

Ding-Yi Chen



Abstract

Effective decision making is based on accurate and timely information. However, human decision makers are often overwhelmed by the huge amount of electronic data these days. The main contribution of this paper is the development of effective information agents which can autonomously classify and filter incoming electronic data on behalf of their human users. The proposed information agents are innovative because they can quickly classify electronic documents solely based on the short titles of these documents. Moreover, supervised learning is not required to train the classification models of these agents. Document classification is based on information inference conducted over a high dimensional semantic information space. What is more, a belief revision mechanism continuously maintains a set of user preferred information categories and filter documents with respect to these categories. Preliminary experimental results show that our document classification and filtering mechanism outperforms the Support Vector Machines (SVM) model which is regarded as one of the best performing classifiers.

Citation

SONG, D., LAU, R.Y.K., BRUZA, P.D., WONG, K.-F. and CHEN, D.-Y. 2007. An intelligent information agent for document title classification and filtering in document-intensive domains. Decision support systems [online], 44(1), pages 251-265. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2007.04.001

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 30, 2007
Online Publication Date Nov 30, 2007
Publication Date Nov 30, 2007
Deposit Date Mar 13, 2009
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Decision support systems
Print ISSN 0167-9236
Electronic ISSN 1873-5797
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 44
Issue 1
Pages 251-265
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2007.04.001
Keywords Information inference; Information flow; Belief revision; Document classification; Information agents
Public URL http://hdl.handle.net/10059/316

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