Adaptive user profile model and collaborative filtering for personalized news

  • Authors:
  • Jue Wang;Zhiwei Li;Jinyi Yao;Zengqi Sun;Mingjing Li;Wei-ying Ma

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and System, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, P.R. China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, P.R. China;State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and System, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, P.R. China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • APWeb'06 Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Web conference on Frontiers of WWW Research and Development
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In recent years, personalized news recommendation has received increasing attention in IR community. The core problem of personalized recommendation is to model and track users’ interests and their changes. To address this problem, both content-based filtering (CBF) and collaborative filtering (CF) have been explored. User interests involve interests on fixed categories and dynamic events, yet in current CBF approaches, there is a lack of ability to model user’s interests at the event level. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to user profile modeling. In this model, user’s interests are modeled by a multi-layer tree with a dynamically changeable structure, the top layers of which are used to model user interests on fixed categories, and the bottom layers are for dynamic events. Thus, this model can track the user’s reading behaviors on both fixed categories and dynamic events, and consequently capture the interest changes. A modified CF algorithm based on the hierarchically structured profile model is also proposed. Experimental results indicate the advantages of our approach.