Personalised news and scientific literature aggregation

  • Authors:

  • Nikolaos Nanas;Manolis Vavalis;Elias Houstis

  • Affiliations:

  • Centre for Research and Technology - Thessaly (CE.RE.TE.TH), Volos, Greece;Centre for Research and Technology - Thessaly (CE.RE.TE.TH), Volos, Greece and Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece;Centre for Research and Technology - Thessaly (CE.RE.TE.TH), Volos, Greece and Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Content-based filtering can be deployed for personalised information dissemination on the web, but this is a possibility that has been largely ignored. Nowadays, there are no successful content-based filtering applications available online. Nootropia is an immune-inspired user profiling model for content-based filtering. It has the advantageous property to be able to represent a user's multiple interests and adapt to a variety of changes in them. In this paper we describe our early efforts to develop real world personalisation services based on Nootropia. We present, the architecture, implementation, usage and evaluation of the personalised news and paper aggregator, which aggregates news and papers that are relevant to an individual's interests. Our user study shows that Nootropia can effectively learn a user's interests and identify relevant information. It also indicates that information filtering is a complicated task with many factors affecting its successful application in a real situation.