Intelligent information personalization leveraging constraint satisfaction and association rule methods

  • Authors:
  • Syed Sibte Raza Abidi;Yan Zeng

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada;Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

  • Venue:
  • AI'06 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Recommender systems, using information personalization methods, provide information that is relevant to a user-model. Current information personalization methods do not take into account whether multiple documents when recommended together present a factually consistent outlook. In the realm of content-based filtering, in this paper, we investigate establishing the factual consistency between the set of documents deemed relevant to a user. We approach information personalization as a constraint satisfaction problem, where we attempt to satisfy two constraints—i.e. user-model constraints to determine the relevance of a document to a user and consistency constraints to establish factual consistency of the overall personalized information. Our information personalization framework involves: (a) an automatic constraint acquisition method, based on association rule mining, to derive consistency constraints from a corpus of documents; and (b) a hybrid of constraint satisfaction and optimization methods to derive an optimal solution comprising both relevant and factually consistent documents. We apply our information personalization framework to filter news items using the Reuters-21578 dataset.