Intelligent information retrieval agents

Abstract

Research in AI has over the last fifteen years focused on defining highly autonomous systems, displaying a rational behaviour and capable of solving complicated and elaborate tasks. These systems, which are commonly referred to as rational agents, seem tailor-made for helping to solve the information retrieval problem. Rational agents, with the ability to reason, communicate, gather and maintain information could probably be used as autonomous information retrieval systems. In this article we present the use of information agents as known in AI in the context of information retrieval. (9 pages)