Third International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (ICMAS'98) Example-Based Frame Mapping for Heterogeneous Information Agents Paris, France July 03-July 07 ISBN: 0-8186-8500-X
Communication among heterogeneous information agents is often difficult because they often use different structures to express the same information. A common ontology could resolve this problem. However, it would be very difficult to build such an ontology for dynamic information spaces such as the WWW. Thus, automatic reconciliation of differences is necessary to permit multiagent communication within an open environment where new expressions tend to emerge in communication. We propose a technique that enables automatic mapping of equivalent slots in different frames.The proposed technique, Example-Based Frame Mapping (EBFM), generates hypotheses of equivalent slots, then selects a plausible hypothesis by comparing similarities within the examples inferred to express the same object. EBFM solves the essential problems that arise in frame mapping (e.g., synonyms and homonyms) by using only the available information without requiring any domain-specific heuristic knowledge, and can achieve more than 99% accuracy.
Index Terms:
information agent, ontology, agent commuincation, frame, information retrieval, WWW
Citation:
Fumiaki Itoh, Takaya Ueda, Yuji Ikeda, "Example-Based Frame Mapping for Heterogeneous Information Agents," icmas, pp.150, Third International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (ICMAS'98), 1998 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||