NectaRSS, an intelligent RSS feed reader

  • Authors:
  • Juan J. Samper;Pedro A. Castillo;Lourdes Araujo;J. J. Merelo;íscar Cordón;Fernando Tricas

  • Affiliations:
  • Delegación Provincial de la Consejería de Educación Centro del Profesorado de Almería Paseo de la Caridad, 125. 04008. Almería;Depto. Arquitectura y Tecnología de los Computadores ETS Ingenirías Informática y Telecomunicaciones c/ Daniel Saucedo Aranda, s/n 18071 Granada (Spain);Depto. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, ETSII Informática, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), C/ Juan del Rosal, 16, Madrid, 28040;Depto. Arquitectura y Tecnología de los Computadores ETS Ingenirías Informática y Telecomunicaciones c/ Daniel Saucedo Aranda, s/n 18071 Granada (Spain);European Centre for Soft Computing Edificio Cientifico-Tecnologico, planta 3 C/ Gonzalo Gutierrez Quiros, s/n 33600 - Mieres. Spain;Depto. Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas. Centro Politécnico Superior. Universidad de Zaragoza. María de Luna, 1. 50018 Zaragoza

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper a novel article ranking method called NectaRSS is introduced. The system recommends incoming articles, which we will designate as newsitems, to users based on their past choices. User preferences are automatically acquired, avoiding explicit feedback, and ranking is based on those preferences distilled to a user profile. NectaRSS uses the well-known vector space model for user profiles and new documents, and compares them using information retrieval techniques, but introduces a novel method for user profile creation and adaptation from users' past choices. The efficiency of the proposed method has been tested by embedding it into an intelligent aggregator (RSS feed reader) which has been used by different and heterogeneous users. Besides, this paper proves that the ranking of newsitems yielded by NectaRSS improves its quality with user's choices, and its superiority over other algorithms that use a different information representation method.