CREATE A PERSONAL AGENT
Agent name
Type in a short
name which uniquely identifies the agent.
Your agent
will look for information on
Use this
multi-line text box to enter search words associated with your agent.
Type in a set of words, including any Boolean queries, that you wish to
use as the search parameters. You can use the
same wording and syntax here as you would use for a query in the search
screen.
Sort the
results by
This control,
comprised of 3 radio buttons, allows you to choose how the results of
your query are to be displayed when a search is performed.
The default
setting sorts by relevance. This means that items will be ordered
primarily by their percentage score. Items which have the same score are
then ordered by word proximity - in other words, an item which contains
search words close to each other will be ranked more highly than one
which contains the same words, but not close to each other. This is
optional.
Alternatively,
you could choose to sort by relevance then date, in which case
items with the same score will be presented in reverse chronological
order; in other words, the most recent comes first. (The date used is
the date when the item was written.)
Also, you can
sort by date then relevance, where items are listed in reverse
chronological order, with items written on the same day presented in
order of relevance (in other words, the highest percentage score comes
first).
Include
documents at least X % relevant
Select a
percentage from this drop-down selection list to specify a relevance
threshold.
New items must be
deemed to have a relevance greater than this score in order to send an
alert about them.
As a guide, this
score should be high (such as 75%) if you expect a large number of words
in your search to exist in documents you are interested in, and lower
(such as 10%) when you expect only a few of the words in your search to
exist in documents you are interested in.
Alert me to
new results by email (Members only)
Check this check
box to specify whether or not to send an e-mail message (an alert) when
new items come into the system and are found by the agent. You can also
specify an e-mail address to send such alerts to, by using the text
input box to the right of this check box. If you do not specify an
e-mail address, your own e-mail address (as set in your options, or when
your account was created) will be used. If you leave this text box
blank, the e-mail address set in your options will not be used.
Include
results per mail
Use this
selection list to choose a maximum number of new results mentioned in an
e-mail alert (if you are Member).
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