A user model based on content analysis for the
intelligent personalization of a news service

Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez*, Manuel J. Maña López**Alberto Díaz Esteban*, and Pablo Gervás Gómez-Navarro***

* Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Europea de Madrid – CEES (Spain)
email: {buenaga, alberto}@dinar.esi.uem.es
** Departamento de Informática, Universidad de Vigo (Spain)
email: mjlopez@uvigo.es
*** Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Programación, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
email: pgervas@sip.ucm.es

 
 

ABSTRACT

In this paper we present a methodology designed to improve the intelligent personalization of news services. Our methodology integrates textual content analysis tasks to achieve an elaborate user model, which represents separately short-term needs and long-term multi-topic interests. The characterization of user’s interests includes his preferences about content, using a wide coverage and non-specific-domain classification of topics, and structure (newspaper sections). The application of implicit feedback allows a proper and dynamic personalization.