Discovering Internet Resources to Enrich a Structured
Personal Information Space

Michle Ouellet
Stelvio Inc.,
430 SteHlne, #604, Montral,
H2Y 2K7 Qubec, Canada,
mouellet@stelvio.com
Jan Gecsei, JianYun Nie
Dpt d'I.R.O., Universit de Montral
CP. 6128, succ. Centreville, Montral
H3C 3J7 Qubec, Canada
{gecsei, nie}@iro.umontreal.ca

Abstract
The Internet is a tremendous resource where one can find documents to enrich a personal information space. The
question is: how can one find relevant documents and how can these be organized into an information space? In
this paper, we describe a prototype which aims to provide the user with assistance in these two tasks. Our
approach assumes the existence of an initial concept structure set up by the user. This structure may contain only
rudimentary descriptions for each concept. The system's task is to find relevant documents from the Internet and
to insert them in the appropriate places in the concept structure.


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