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Intelligent systems using Web-pages as knowledge base for statistical decision making

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In this paper, we propose an approach to the construction of an intelligent system that handles various domain information provided on the Internet. The intelligent system adopts statistical decision-making as its reasoning framework and automatically constructs probabilistic knowledge, required for its decision-making, from Web-pages. This construction of probabilistic knowledge is carried out using aprobability interpretation idea that transforms statements in Web-pages into constraints on the subjective probabilities of a person who describes the statements. In this paper, we particularly focus on describing the basic idea of our approach and on discussing difficulties in our approach, including our perspective.

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  1. NTT Communication Science Laboratories, 2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, 6190237, Kyoto, Japan

    Kazunori Fujimoto & Kazumitsu Matsuzawa

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Kazunori Fujimoto: He received bachelor’s degree from Department of Electrical Engineering, Doshisha University, Japan, in 1989, and master’s degree from Division of Applied Systems Science, Kyoto University, Japan, in 1992. From there, he joined NTT Electrical Communications Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan, and has been engaged in research on Artificial Intelligence. He is currently interested in probabilistic reasoning, knowledge acquisition, and especially in quantitative approaches to research in human cognition and behavior. Mr. Fujimoto is a member of Decision Analysis Society, The Behaviormetric Society of Japan, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Information Processing Society of Japan, and Japanese Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems.

Kazumitsu Matsuzawa: He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1975 and 1977. From there, he joined NTT Electrical Communications Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan, and has been engaged in research on computer architecture and the design of LSI. He is currently concerned with AI technology. Mr. Matsuzawa is a member of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Information Processing Society of Japan, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, and Japanese Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems.

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Fujimoto, K., Matsuzawa, K. Intelligent systems using Web-pages as knowledge base for statistical decision making. NGCO 17, 349–358 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03037241

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