Identifying and tracking changing interests

@article{citeulike:681902, abstract = {Personalised information systems require a profile of the user in order to function effectively. Typically such systems require users to supply a set of keywords which describe their interests. The research presented in this paper derives user interest profiles automatically by monitoring user web and e-mail habits. A clustering algorithm is employed to identify interests, which are then clustered together to form interest themes. User profiles must also adapt to the changing interests of the user over time. This paper shows that interest themes can be tracked over time through measuring the similarity of interest themes across time periods.}, author = {Crabtree, Barry and Soltysiak, Stuart J. }, citeulike-article-id = {681902}, journal = {International Journal on Digital Libraries}, keywords = {information-retrieval, user-modeling, web-personalization}, month = {October}, number = {1}, pages = {38--53}, posted-at = {2006-06-02 18:46:33}, priority = {2}, title = {Identifying and tracking changing interests}, volume = {2} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:681902 L3 - citeulike-article-id:681902 TI - Identifying and tracking changing interests JF - International Journal on Digital Libraries VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 38 EP - 53 N2 - Personalised information systems require a profile of the user in order to function effectively. Typically such systems require users to supply a set of keywords which describe their interests. The research presented in this paper derives user interest profiles automatically by monitoring user web and e-mail habits. A clustering algorithm is employed to identify interests, which are then clustered together to form interest themes. User profiles must also adapt to the changing interests of the user over time. This paper shows that interest themes can be tracked over time through measuring the similarity of interest themes across time periods. KW - information-retrieval KW - user-modeling KW - web-personalization AU - Crabtree, Barry AU - Soltysiak, Stuart ER -