Friday, April 4, 2014

Week 11: Reading Notes

User Profiles for Personalized Information Access

Many research projects are exploring the use of personalized applications that manage this deluge by tailoring the information presented to individual users.

The amount of information available causes information overloading, the demand for personalized approaches for information access increases. How user profiles specifically designed for providing personalized information access.

1.
Profiles that can be modified or augmented are considered to be dynamic, different from static profiles.
Short-term profiles represent user's current interests,
Long-term profiles indicate interests that are not subject to frequent changes over time.

2. Collecting Information About users
This system must be able to uniquely identify users.

5 basic approaches to user identification:
software agents
logins
enhanced proxy servers
cookies
session ids

3. Methods for User Information Collection
Explicit User Information Collection
Implicit User Information Collection

4. User Profile Representations
Keyword Profiles
Semantic Network Profiles
Concept Profiles

5. User Profile Construction
Building Keyword Profiles
Building Semantic Network Profiles
Building Concept Profiles

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