Fourth Mexican International Conference on Computer Science
Inclusion of Reference Agents in a Virtual Reference Environment
Tlaxcala, Mexico
September 08-September 12
ISBN: 0-7695-1915-6
Agents have been used to support a great diversity of tasks in digital libraries such as those related with services or information management. This paper describes the role of agents we have termed "reference agents" in a Virtual Reference Environment which has been designed to support collaboration and reuse of knowledge. We include a brief description of this system, a charaterization of reference agents and some previous results of their operation. We also propose the use of ontologies as an alternative to deal with keywords ambiguity.
Index Terms:
collaborative workspaces, digital libraries, reference services, agents, ontologies
Citation:
Ma. Auxilio Medina, J. Alberto Ch?vez, Antonio Ben?tez, "Inclusion of Reference Agents in a Virtual Reference Environment," enc, pp.246, Fourth Mexican International Conference on Computer Science, 2003