Personalized Information Delivery: An analysis of Information Filtering Methods

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1992, Pages 51-60

  Foltz, Peter W ^a   Dumais, Susan T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

indexing methods; information filtering; information retrieval; latent semantic indexing; retrieval models; user models; user profiling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976789577     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/138859.138866     Document Type: Article

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