The Traits of the Personable

Information personalization is fertile ground for application of AI techniques. In this article I relate personalization to the ability to capture partial information in an information-seeking interaction. The specific focus is on personalizing interactions at web sites. Using ideas from partial evaluation and explanation-based generalization, I present a modeling methodology for reasoning about personalization. This approach helps identify seven tiers of ‘personable traits’ in web sites.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: IJCAI
• Authors: Naren Ramakrishnan
• Keywords: IJCAI 2003, IJCAI 2007, Information Personalization, Personalization, Web Sites