Generating semantically enriched user profiles for Web personalization

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Anand, Sarabjot Singh ^a,c   Kearney, Patricia ^b   Shapcott, Mary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Evaluation; Implicit ratings; Personalization; Similarity metric

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; ONTOLOGY; USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; EVALUATION; IMPLICIT RATINGS; PERSONALIZATION; SIMILARITY METRIC;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 35349020030     PISSN: 15335399     EISSN: 15576051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1278366.1278371     Document Type: Article

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