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An Agent-Based Knowledge Acquisition Platform

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Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2005)

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Accessing up-to-date information in a fast and easy way implies the necessity of information management tools to explore and analyse the huge number of available electronic resources. The Web offers a large amount of valuable information, but its human-oriented representation and its size makes extremely difficult any kind of computer-based processing. In this paper, a combination of distributed AI and information extraction techniques is proposed to tackle this problem. In particular, we have designed a multiagent system that composes ontologies from taxonomies of terms. Moreover, the obtained ontology is used to represent, in a structured way, the currently available web resources. The paper analyses the application of this approach in some examples in the medical domain.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Mathematics (DEIM), University Rovira i Virgili (URV), Av. Països Catalans, 26., 43007, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

    David Sánchez, David Isern & Antonio Moreno

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  1. Chair of Information Systems Management, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstrasse 30, Germany

    Torsten Eymann

  2. Department for Artificial Intelligence, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg

    Franziska Klügl

  3. Distributed Systems and Information Systems, Computer Science Department, University of Hamburg, Vogt–Kölln–Str. 30, 22527, Hamburg, Germany

    Winfried Lamersdorf

  4. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC, USA

    Michael N. Huhns

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Sánchez, D., Isern, D., Moreno, A. (2005). An Agent-Based Knowledge Acquisition Platform. In: Eymann, T., Klügl, F., Lamersdorf, W., Klusch, M., Huhns, M.N. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3550. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11550648_11

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