Personalized News Reading via Hybrid Learning

  • Ke Chen
  • Sunny Yeung
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3177)

Abstract

In this paper, we present a personalized news reading prototype where latest news articles published by various on-line news providers are automatically collected, categorized and ranked in light of a user’s habits or interests. Moreover, our system can adapt itself towards a better performance. In order to develop such an adaptive system, we proposed a hybrid learning strategy; supervised learning is used to create an initial system configuration based on user’s feedbacks during registration, while an unsupervised learning scheme gradually updates the configuration by tracing the user’s behaviors as the system is being used. Simulation results demonstrate satisfactory performance.

Keywords

Supervise Learning Unsupervised Learning News Article Personalized News News Reading 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Ke Chen
    • 1
  • Sunny Yeung
    • 2
  1. 1.School of InformaticsThe University of ManchesterManchesterUK
  2. 2.School of Computer ScienceBirmingham UniversityBirminghamUK

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