Ontology-Based Personalised and Context-Aware Recommendations of News Items

Author

Cantador, Iván ; Bellogin, A. ; Castells, Pablo

Author_Institution

Escuela Politec. Super., Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

562

Lastpage

565

Abstract

News@hand is a news recommender system that makes use of semantic technologies to provide several on-line news recommendation services. News contents and user preferences are described in terms of concepts appearing in a set of domain ontologies. Based on the similarities between item descriptions and user profiles, and the se-mantic relations between concepts, content-based and collaborative recommendation models are supported by the system. In this paper, we evaluate a model that personalizes the order in which news articles are shown to the user according to his long-term interest profile, and other model that reorders the news items lists taking into account the current semantic context of interest of the user. The combination of those models is investigated showing significant improvements on the experimental tasks performed.

Keywords

content-based retrieval; groupware; information filters; information resources; ontologies (artificial intelligence); semantic Web; ubiquitous computing; collaborative recommendation model; content-based recommendation model; context-aware recommendation; domain ontology; on-line news recommendation service; personalised recommendation model; recommender system; semantic technology; Collaboration; Context modeling; Context-aware services; Control systems; Hurricanes; Intelligent agent; Ontologies; Proposals; Recommender systems; Vocabulary; context; ontology; recommender systems; semantic web; user modelling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2008. WI-IAT '08. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3496-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WIIAT.2008.204

Filename

4740510