This chapter surveys the field of user modeling in artificial intelligence dialog systems. First,
reasons why user modeling has become so important in the last few years are pointed out …

In order to be capable of exhibiting a wide range of cooperative behavior, a computer-based
dialog system must have available assumptions about the current user's goals, plans …

This article gives a comprehensive overview of techniques for personalised hypermedia
presentation. It describes the data about the computer user, the computer usage and the …

There is a strong argument in Artificial Intelligence in Education which advocates that
computer-based learning systems need to adapt to the needs of learners if they are to …

KNOME is the user modeling component of UC, a natural language consultation system for
the UNIX operating system. During the course of an interactive session with a user, KNOME …

This review of the field of student modelling covers the basic concepts of overlays, bugs, and
various more recent modelling representations. The function of student modelling is …

For intelligent interactive systems to communicate with humans in a natural manner, they
must have knowledge about the system users. This paper explores the role of user modeling …

Computer systems which can automatically alter aspects of their functionality or interface to
suit the needs of individuals or groups of users have appeared over the years in a variety of …

The fields of user modeling and natural language processing have been closely linked since
the early days of user modeling. Natural language systems consult user models in order to …

This chapter discusses the application of various kinds of default reasoning in system
maintained models of users. In particular, we describe the general architecture of a domain …