Learning user profiles for personalized information dissemination

Author

Tan, Ah-Hwee ; Teo, Christine

Author_Institution

Kent Ridge Digital Lab., Singapore

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

4-8 May 1998

Firstpage

183

Abstract

Personalized information systems represent the recent effort of delivering information to users more effectively in the modern electronic age. This paper illustrates how a supervised adaptive resonance theory (ART) system, called fuzzy ARAM (adaptive resonance associative map), can be used to learn user profiles for personalized information dissemination. ARAM learning is online, fast, and incremental. Acquisition of new knowledge does not require re-training on previously learned cases. ARAM integrates both user-defined and system-learned knowledge in a single framework. Therefore inconsistency between the two knowledge sources will not arise. ARAM has been used to develop a personalized news system (PIN). Preliminary experiments have verified that PIN is able to provide personalized news by adapting to user´s interests in an online manner and generalizing them to new information on-the-fly

Keywords

ART neural nets; Internet; feature extraction; fuzzy neural nets; information dissemination; knowledge acquisition; learning (artificial intelligence); personal information systems; real-time systems; World Wide Web; adaptive resonance associative map; feature extraction; fuzzy ARAM; knowledge acquisition; personalized information dissemination; personalized news system; real time system; retrieval agents; supervised adaptive resonance theory; user profile learning; Decision trees; Fuzzy systems; Indexing; Information filtering; Information systems; Neural networks; Resonance; Subspace constraints; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Neural Networks Proceedings, 1998. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. The 1998 IEEE International Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

ISSN

1098-7576

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4859-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IJCNN.1998.682259

Filename

682259