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A Dynamic Approach to Reducing Dialog in On-Line Decision Guides |
Doyle, Michelle; Cunningham, Padraig
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TCD-CS-2000-14 Online decision guides typically ask too many questions of the user,
as they make no attempt to focus the questions. We describe some approaches
to minimising the questions asked of a user in an online query situation.
Questions are asked in an order that reflects their ability to narrow down the set
of cases. Thus time to reach an answer is decreased. This has the dual benefit
of taking some of the monotony out of online queries, and also of decreasing
the amount of network request-response cycles. Most importantly, question
order is decided at run time, and therefore adapts to the user. This approach is
in the spirit of lazy learning with induction delayed to run-time, allowing
adaptation to the emerging details of the situation. We evaluate a few different
approaches to the question selection task, and compare the best approach (one
based on ideas from retrieval in CBR) to a commercial online decision guide.
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Keyword(s):
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Computer Science |
Publication Date:
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2000 |
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Type:
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Report |
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Peer-Reviewed:
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Unknown |
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Language(s):
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English |
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Institution:
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Trinity College Dublin |
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Citation(s):
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Doyle, Michelle; Cunningham, Padraig. 'A Dynamic Approach to Reducing Dialog in On-Line Decision Guides'. - Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Computer Science, TCD-CS-2000-14, 2000, pp16 |
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Publisher(s):
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Trinity College Dublin, Department of Computer Science |
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File Format(s):
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application/pdf |
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First Indexed:
2014-05-13 05:31:24 Last Updated:
2015-04-10 05:14:05 |
