From Information to Interaction: in Pursuit of Task-centred Infornation Management
Alan John Dix, Akrivi Katifori, Antonella Poggi, Tiziana Catarci, Yannis Ioannidis, George Lepouras, Miguel Ángel Candel Mora · Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) · 2007
In this paper we describe two automatic inference mechanisms constructed around a personal ontology with the aim of providing human like assistance for form-filling. This is part of the wider vision of DELOS Task 4.8 Task-centered Information Management, which aims to create a more activity or task-focused interaction environment for users, taking their individual library of digital information and turning it into a resource for automated support. The two techniques described in this paper are (i) a spreading activation algorithm operating over the user's personal ontology which enables a form of temporal context or memory and (ii) a rule inference algorithm that takes examples of completed forms and infers how the fields map to generic subgaps of the ontology.