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GETESS—Searching the Web Exploiting German Texts

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Cooperative Information Agents III (CIA 1999)

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We present an intelligent information agent that uses semantic methods and natural language processing capabilites in order to gather tourist information from the WWW and present it to the human user in an intuitive, user-friendly way. Thereby, the information agent is designed such that as background knowledge and linguistic coverage increase, its benefits improve, while it guarantees state-of-the-art information and database retrieval capabilities as its bottom line.

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  1. AIFB, Univ. Karlsruhe, D, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Steffen Staab, Hans-Peter Schnurr & Rudi Studer

  2. DFKI, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Christian Braun, Günter. Neumann & Hans Uszkoreit

  3. GECKO mbH, Koch-Gotha-Str. 1, D, 18055, Rostock, Germany

    Ilvio Bruder, Bernd Prager, Jan Pretzel & Burkhard Wrenger

  4. Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Rostock, D, 18051, Rostock, Germany

    Antje Düsterhöft, Andreas Heuer & Meike Klettke

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  1. DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd., Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  2. The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, 15213, PA, USA

    Onn M. Shehory

  3. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universitä München, D-80290, München, Germany

    Gerhard Weiss

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Staab, S. et al. (1999). GETESS—Searching the Web Exploiting German Texts. In: Klusch, M., Shehory, O.M., Weiss, G. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents III. CIA 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1652. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48414-0_7

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