Role of user profiles for news filtering

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 149-160

  Shepherd, Michael ^a   Duffy, John F ^a   Watters, Carolyn ^a   Gugle, Nitin ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELECTRONIC NEWS; NEWS FILTERING; ONLINE NEWS; USER PROFILES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 0035127334     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999<::AID-ASI1055>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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