CONCERT: a concept-centric web news recommendation system

  • Authors:
  • Hongda Ren;Wei Feng

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China;Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China

  • Venue:
  • WAIM'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Web-Age Information Management
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A concept is a key phrase which can represent an entity, event or idea that people are interested in. Concept-centric Web news recommendation is a novel content-based recommendation paradigm which can partially alleviate the cold-start problem and provide better recommendation results in terms of diversity than traditional news recommendation systems, as it can capture users' interest in a natural way and can even recommend a new Web news to a user as long as it is conceptually relevant to a main concept of the Web news the user is browsing. This demonstration paper presents a novel CON cept-Centric nEws Recommendation sysTem called CONCERT. CONCERT consists of two parts: (1) A concept extractor which is based on machine learning algorithms and can extract main concepts from Web news pages, (2) A real-time recommender which recommends conceptually relevant Web news to a user based on the extracted concepts.