The design of a high performance information filtering system

  • Authors:
  • Timothy A. H. Bell;Alistair Moffat

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052, Australia.;Department of Computer Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052, Australia.

  • Venue:
  • SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

A high performance information filtering system has three mainrequirements: it must be effective in supplying users with usefulinformation, it must do so in a timely fashion, and it must be ableto handle a large throughput of information and a large number ofuser profiles efficiently. These three requirements pose adifficult problem, and to our knowledge no existing system iscapable of meeting all three. In this paper we describe a systemwhich combines a number of techniques from other informationretrieval and filtering systems, and is capable of providing highperformance on a typical workstation platform. We provide estimatesof computing resource usage, and show that our system is alsoscalable.