Delivering Categorized News Items Using RSS Feeds and Web Services

  • Authors:
  • Subrata Saha;Atul Sajjanhar;Shang Gao;Robert Dew;Ying Zhao

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CIT '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In the past decade the massive growth of the Internet brought huge changes in the way humans live their daily life; however, the biggest concern with rapid growth of digital information is how to efficiently manage and filter unwanted data. In this paper, we propose a method for managing RSS feeds from various news websites. A Web service was developed to provide filtered news items extracted from RSS feeds and these were categorized based on classical text categorization algorithms. A client application consuming this Web service retrieves and displays such filtered information. A prototype was implemented using Rapidminer 4.3 as a data mining tool and SVM as a classification algorithm. Experimental results suggest that the proposed method is effective and saves a significant amount of user processing time.