Updating user profile using ontology-based semantic similarity

  • Authors:
  • Marek Reformat;Sayed Koosha Golmohammadi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

  • Venue:
  • FUZZ-IEEE'09 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Fuzzy Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The endless amount of information on the web, known as "lost-in-hyper-space syndrome", easily overwhelms users. User profiles are used as a means to support extracting relevant information by indicating user interests. In this paper, we propose a new method to develop and maintain a user profile by analyzing user's web access behavior. We propose an ontology-based semantic similarity measure and combine it with an importance measure to identify items that are of highest relevance to user interests. The proposed approach is used in a system for updating a user profile in music domain.