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Budzik, Jay; Hammond, Kristian – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Introduces Information Management Assistants (IMAs). Presents work on an architecture for this class of system, and progress in implementing Watson, a prototype of such a system. Watson observes users in word processing and Web browsing applications and uses a simple model of the user's tasks, knowledge of term importance, and an understanding of…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Information Management, Information Services, Information Systems
Download full textBudzik, Jay; Hammond, Kristian; Marlow, Cameron; Scheinkman, Andrei – 1998
This paper outlines work on a class of systems called Personal Information Management Assistants (PIMAs). PIMAs observe user interaction with everyday applications and use these observations to anticipate a user's information needs. They then automatically fulfill these needs by accessing Internet information sources, filtering the results, and…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Information Management
Budzik, Jay; Hammond, Kristian – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Presents an overview of "Q&A," a Web-based question-answering system that mediates interactions between an expert and a question-asking user. Discusses the system's components and features; details of the implementation; evaluation; and future work. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer System Design, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
