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YourNews

Overview

YourNews is a news filtering system which recommends news articles you swill prefer to read. The recommendations are based on users' past news views and their interests. That is, it finds out articles from a various news feeds which are similar with the ones you have already read and would reflect your interest. It also includes advanced features such as searching, open user model viewer/editor, and VIBE based user model/query visualization. It is being actively developed,

The latest version was extended to support the new features below.

  • Customizable tabs: Users can add their own RSS feeds and organize them into three custom tabs.
  • Feed recommendation: Users can share their feed lists with other users and can be recommended relevant feeds.

Funding

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System development is currently supported by NSF (Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS) ) through Grant No. 0447083 and by DARPA GALE Project.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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Related Publications

Ahn, J., and Brusilovsky, P. (2007) From User Query to User Model and Back: Adaptive Relevance-Based Visualization for Information Foraging. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web

Ahn, J., P. Brusilovsky, P., Grady, J., He, D., Syn, S. (2007) Open User Profile for Adaptive News Systems: Help or Harm? Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web.

Contacts

Jae-wook Ahn

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