What Happened to Content-Based Information Filtering?

  • Authors:
  • Nikolaos Nanas;Anne Roeck;Manolis Vavalis

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory for Information Systems and Services, Centre for Research and Technology - Thessaly (CERETETH),;Computing Department, The Open University,;Laboratory for Information Systems and Services, Centre for Research and Technology - Thessaly (CERETETH),

  • Venue:
  • ICTIR '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval: Advances in Information Retrieval Theory
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Personalisation can have a significant impact on the way information is disseminated on the web today. Information Filtering can be a significant ingredient towards a personalised web. Collaborative Filtering is already being applied successfully for generating personalised recommendations of music tracks, books, movies and more. The same is not true for Content-Based Filtering. In this paper, we identify some possible reasons for the notable absence of a broad range of personalised information delivery and dissemination services on the web today. We advocate that a more holistic approach to user profiling is required and we discuss the series of still open, challenging research issues raised.