# PLOW: A Collaborative Task Learning Agent

Describes PLOW, which learns executable web-task models from a session combining demonstrations, natural-language explanations, and dialogue. Browser instrumentation connects user actions with DOM structure to support task generalization.

- Catalog URL: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-628b5251757bb3888e89/
- Original source: https://aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2007/AAAI07-240.pdf
- Kind: paper
- Review: curated
- Scope: core
- Environments: web
- Topics: web-navigation, human-in-the-loop, planning
- Evidence checked: 2026-10-17T09:53:26Z
- ID: url:628b5251757bb3888e89

## Limitations

The annotation was reviewed against retained primary publication sources. Experiments have not been independently reproduced. The ordered names follow the original published paper, without expanding initials or replacing names from secondary indexes.

- Record JSON: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-628b5251757bb3888e89/record.json

## Authors

James Allen, Nathanael Chambers, George Ferguson, Lucian Galescu, Hyuckchul Jung, Mary Swift, William Taysom

## Citation exports

- BibTeX: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-628b5251757bb3888e89/citation.bib
- CSL JSON: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-628b5251757bb3888e89/citation.csl.json

## Publication record

- Title: PLOW: A Collaborative Task Learning Agent
- Authors: James Allen, Nathanael Chambers, George Ferguson, Lucian Galescu, Hyuckchul Jung, Mary Swift, William Taysom
- Publication date (recorded precision): 2007
- Publication source: https://aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2007/AAAI07-240.pdf
- Publication BibTeX: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-628b5251757bb3888e89/publication-citation.bib
- Publication CSL JSON: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-628b5251757bb3888e89/publication-citation.csl.json
- venue: Twenty-Second AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- pages: 1514-1519
- date basis: Supplied year precision: 2007. Papers section: AAAI-2007
- identity basis: No same-work record located in the full active catalog. Similarity screening was not used as automatic identity approval. The raw archive and exclusions are additionally checked during normalization.
- notes: The ordered names follow the original published paper, without expanding initials or replacing names from secondary indexes. DOI and volume number are not supplied in the retained primary sources. No exact publication month/day is established.
- Publication evidence: https://aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2007/AAAI07-240.pdf, https://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/cisd/projects/plow/

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## Primary evidence

- https://aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2007/AAAI07-240.pdf (retrieved 2026-10-17T09:53:26Z; SHA-256 795d275c9f85180561fd101652221d30fb98daca2c2a00faf2b57c397bdfd68d)
- https://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/cisd/projects/plow/ (retrieved 2026-10-17T09:53:24Z; SHA-256 c0b3571efd5f2e137e42b38107de29aca6668819bec84109912d514867d85b8c)
- https://aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2007/AAAI07-240.pdf (retrieved 2026-10-17T09:53:26Z; SHA-256 795d275c9f85180561fd101652221d30fb98daca2c2a00faf2b57c397bdfd68d)
- https://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/cisd/projects/plow/ (retrieved 2026-10-17T09:53:24Z; SHA-256 c0b3571efd5f2e137e42b38107de29aca6668819bec84109912d514867d85b8c)