Learning probabilistic user profiles: Applications for finding interesting web sites, notifying users of relevant changes to web pages, and locating grant opportunities

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Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 47-56

  Ackerman, Mark ^a   Billsus, Daniel ^b   Gaffney, Scott ^b   Hettich, Seth ^b   Khoo, Gordon ^b   Kim, Dong Joon ^b   Klefstad, Ray ^b   Lowe, Charles ^a   Ludeman, Alexius ^b   Muramatsu, Jack ^b   Omori, Kazuo ^b   Pazzani, Michael J ^a   Semler, Donglas ^b   Starr, Brian ^b   Yap, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California ^*

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