User modelling for news web sites with word sense based techniques

User Modelling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 14, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 239-257

  Magnini, Bernardo ^a   Strapparava, Carlo ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive hypermedia; Content based user modelling; Natural language processing; WordNet

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES; WEB BROWSERS; WEBSITES;

ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA; CONTENT-BASED USER MODELING; MULTILINGUAL NEWS; WORDNET;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 3543121327     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:USER.0000028980.13669.44     Document Type: Article

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