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A Scalable Comparison-Shopping Agent for the World-Wide Web (1997)  (Make Corrections)  (171 citations)
Robert B. Doorenbos, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents'97)



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Abstract: The Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on the Web is presented in loosely structured natural language text with no agent-readable semantics. HTML annotations structure the display of Web pages, but provide virtually no insight into their content. Thus, the designers of intelligent Web agents need to address the following questions: (1) To what extent can an agent understand information published at Web sites? (2) Is the agent's understanding sufficient to provide... (Update)

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B. Doorenbos, O. Etzioni, and D. Weld. A scalable comparison-shopping agent for the world-wide web. In Proc. of the First Int'l Conf. on Autonomous Agents, pages 39--48, February 1997. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/doorenbos97scalable.html   More

@inproceedings{ doorenbos97scalable,
    author = "Robert B. Doorenbos and Oren Etzioni and Daniel S. Weld",
    title = "A Scalable Comparison-Shopping Agent for the World-Wide Web",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents'97)",
    publisher = "ACM Press",
    address = "Marina del Rey, CA, USA",
    editor = "W. Lewis Johnson and Barbara Hayes-Roth",
    pages = "39--48",
    year = "1997",
    url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/doorenbos97scalable.html" }
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