%0 Journal Article %A Simon Thiel and Stavros Dalakakis and Dieter Roller %D 2007 %J International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 7, 2007 %T A Learning Agent for Knowledge Extraction from an Active Semantic Network %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1978 %V 7 %X This paper outlines the development of a learning retrieval agent. Task of this agent is to extract knowledge of the Active Semantic Network in respect to user-requests. Based on a reinforcement learning approach, the agent learns to interpret the user-s intention. Especially, the learning algorithm focuses on the retrieval of complex long distant relations. Increasing its learnt knowledge with every request-result-evaluation sequence, the agent enhances his capability in finding the intended information. %P 2280 - 2283