Personal WebWatcher, Project Page
Overview
Personal WebWatcher is a "personal" agent that
accompanies you from page to page as you browse the web,
highlighting hyperlinks that it believes will be of interest.
Its strategy for giving advice is learned from feedback from
earlier tours. Personal WebWatcher is mainly inspired by
WebWatcher.
Unlike WebWatcher, Personal WebWatcher is structured to specialize
for a particular user, modeling her/his interests.
It ``watches over the users shoulder'' the similar way WebWatcher
does, but it avoids involving the user in its learning process
(it doesn't ask the user for any keywords or opinions about pages).
It solely records the addresses of pages requested by the user and
highlights interesting hyperlinks.
In the learning phase (typically during the night), requested pages
are analyzed and a model of user interests is generated/updated.
This model is used to give advice for hyperlinks on retrieved HTML-pages
requested by and presented to the user via Web browser.
More about Personal WebWatcher
Feature selection
Machine Learning for better Web browsing
- Mladenic, D., (2001)
Using Text Learning to help Web browsing
(PDF)
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction,
(HCI International 2001),
New Orleans, LA, USA
- Mladenic, D., Grobelnik, M., (1999)
Predicting content from hyperlinks
(uncompressed)
Proceedings of the ICML-99 Workshop on Machine Learning in Text Data Analysis,
J.Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, pp. 19-24.
Also in Proceedings of the Eight Electrotechnical and Computer Sc. Conference ERK'99,
Ljubljana, Slovenia: IEEE section, 1999.
- Mladenic, D., (1999)
Machine learning for better Web browsing
(uncompressed)
Proceedings of the Eight Electrotechnical and Computer Sc. Conference ERK'99,
Ljubljana, Slovenia: IEEE section, 1999.
Also in AAAI 2000 Spring Symposium Technical report on Adaptive User Interfaces
- Mladenic, D., (1999)
Machine learning used by Personal WebWatcher
(uncompressed)
Proceedings of ACAI-99 Workshop on Machine Learning and Intelligent Agents,
Chania, Crete, July 5-16, 1999.
(abstract)
- Mladenic, D., (1999)
Text-learning and related intelligent agents
(Revised version in
IEEE EXPERT, Special Issue on Applications of Intelligent Information Retrieval),
July-August 1999.
- Joachims, T., Mladenic, D., (1998)
Browsing-Assistenten, Tour Guides und Adaptive WWW-Server (abstract, in German)
KI, Kunstliche Intelligenz, Special Issue Intelligent Information Agents, vol. 3, September 1998, pp. 23-29.
- Mladenic, D., (1998)
Text-learning and intelligent agents
(uncompressed)
Technical Report IJS-DP-7948,
Department of Intelligent Systems, J.Stefan Institute, Slovenia
(Submitted to IEEE EXPERT, Special Issue on Applications of Intelligent Information Retrieval), April 1998.
(abstract)
- Mladenic, D., (1997)
Strojno ucenje za pomoc pri preiskovanju WWW
(in Slovene), Usage of machine learning to help in browsing the Web,
Proceedings of the Sixth Electrotechnical and Computer Sc. Conference ERK '97,
Ljubljana, Slovenia: IEEE section, 1997, pp. 133-136.
(abstract)
- Mladenic, D., (1996)
Personal WebWatcher: Implementation and Design
(uncompressed)
Technical Report IJS-DP-7472,
Department of Intelligent Systems, J.Stefan Institute, Slovenia.
Machine Learning
- Mladenic, D., (1998),
PhD thesis,
Machine Learning on non-homogeneous, distributed text data
(uncompressed)
PhD thesis,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 1998, 140 pages.
- Mladenic, D., (1997), proposal,
Machine Learning on non-homogeneous, distributed text data
(uncompressed)
PhD thesisi proposal,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, June,1997, 11 pages.
- Grobelnik, M., Mladenic, D., (1998)
Learning Machine: design and impelmentation
(uncompresses)
Technical Report IJS-DP-7824,
Department of Intelligent Systems, J.Stefan Institute, Slovenia,
January, 1998.
Project Members
This project is a part of
CMU Text Learning Group work
and strongly related to
the Yahoo Planet project,
the Word-Mining project
and the PhD thesis project: Machine Learning on non-homogeneous, distributed text data
Dunja Mladenic
Last modified: Fri Jun 29 20:08:02 EDT 2001