{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Building and Exploiting User Models","authors":[{"name":"Elaine Rich","slug":"elaine-rich","given":"Elaine","family":"Rich","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"This paper de~. cribe~. the i~• ·.11es involved in building and exploiting individual •J ~ ..,,. moclels in order to guide the performance of an inter<lclive ~. y5tem . A r. y•.tem called Grundy, that recommends novels to people, is described and analyzed a!i a forum in which to explore tho!.c issue s. One of the major techniques exploited in Grundy is the use of stereotyper. as a rnPchanism for quickly producing an in1tial approxim<~\\ i on to a model of the u,;er . Experiments with the ~.y$IPm show that despite the fact that ster .<.. otypes are inho~rently imperfect. their use does contibute significantly to the sy!>tem's ability to buiid useful models of its users.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/159","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0159.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/159.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/bibtex/159","volume":{"slug":"1979","title":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1979","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/","year":1979,"location":"Tokyo, Japan","dates":"August 20-23, 1979","editors":"Bruce G. Buchanan","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":159,"pages":{"first":null,"last":null},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}