Learning user profiles from text in e-commerce

  • Authors:
  • M. Degemmis;P. Lops;S. Ferilli;N. Di Mauro;T. M. A. Basile;G. Semeraro

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italia;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italia;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italia;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italia;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italia;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italia

  • Venue:
  • ADMA'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Exploring digital collections to find information relevant to a user's interests is a challenging task. Algorithms designed to solve this relevant information problem base their relevance computations on user profiles in which representations of the users' interests are maintained. This paper presents a new method, based on the classical Rocchio algorithm for text categorization, able to discover user preferences from the analysis of textual descriptions of items in online catalogues of e-commerce Web sites. Experiments have been carried out on a dataset of real users, and results have been compared with those obtained using an Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) approach and a probabilistic one.