A Study on Developing an Ontology-Supported Information Agent Shell

Abstract

This paper developed an Ontology-supported Information Agent Shell (OntoIAS) based on the ontology and information agent technologies. It contains the four main modules, including information crawling, information extracting, information classifying, and information presenting/ranking and orderly corresponding to OntoCrawler, OntoExtractor, OntoClassifier, and OntoRecommander, respectively. The preliminary experiment outcomes proved the technology proposed in this paper to be able to really reach the goal of an information agent, and accordingly proved the feasibility of this shell architecture.