TOWARD INTELLIGENT PERSONAL MULTILINGUAL WEB MINING AGENT

Intelligent agent has been a well-known technology for relieving people from the burden of information overload by facilitating personal web information access (see Chen & Sycara, 1998; Mladenic, 1996; Han et al., 1998). Intelligent agents all rely on a user profile to filter incoming information as relevant or irrelevant to a user's information need. The user -oriented, concept-based multilingual web content mining approach introduced in this chapter will, thus, be applied to develop an agent-based personal multilingual web mining system for facilitating web multilingual information access. This personal multilingual web mining agent, guided by the concept-based user profile and incorporating the multilingual text classifier, should provide an effective mechanism for automatic personalized knowledge discovery over the multilingual web. Given such development, multilingual web content mining targeting useful knowledge specific to a user's personal domain of interest can be realized. As such, a user's information need for personalized global knowledge discovery can be effectively satisfied.