Robin Burke
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Research

Overview
  From a disciplinary perspective, it looks like my research is all over the map, but really I'm interested in just one thing: human memory and the ways in which computers can augment, support and emulate it. As the quantity of digitally-available information mushrooms, it would seem that we can learn something from the way people store and recall a lifetime of experience.
CBR is the branch of AI that emphasizes reasoning from past experience. Much of my research draws from this area.
Secure Personalization
  Can we make recommender systems secure against attackers injecting bias profiles?
Project wiki
ARCH
  User modeling for information access using ontologies. Project wiki.
FindMe systems
  CBR and user modeling applied to the problem of recommending products in e-commerce catalogs.
DONNA/Salticus
  Strategic knowledge applied to the problem of finding, storing, organizing and presenting information for competitive business intelligence.
FAQ Finder
  Natural language question answering from frequently-asked question files, combining statistical and knowledge-based techniques.
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  My dissertation work was on intelligent tutoring systems, concentrating on the problem of storing, indexing and retrieving tutorial stories.