Do What I Mean: Online Shopping with a Natural Language Search Agent
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Copyright 2001 IEEE. Reprinted from IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume 16, Issue 4, July/August 2001, pages 48-53.
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Abstract
Ineffective search engines on e-catalog sites are driving away potential customers. Natural-language querying improves precision and parsing capability, and with advances in the technology, it can also meet these shopping sites' performance demands.
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Barry G. Silverman, Mintu Bachann, and Khaled Al-Akharas. "Do What I Mean: Online Shopping with a Natural Language Search Agent" Departmental Papers (ESE) (2001).
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/barry_silverman/25
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