Learning Probabilistic User Profiles: Applications for Finding Interesting Web Sites, Notifying Users of Relevant Changes to Web Pages, and Locating Grant Opportunities
Mark Steven Ackerman, Daniel Billsus, Scott J. Gaffney, Gordon Khoo, Seth Hettich, Dong Joon Kim, Raymond Klefstad, Charles Lowe, Alexius Ludeman, Jack Muramatsu, Omori Kazuo, Michael J. Pazzani, Douglas Semler, Brian Starr, Paul S.H. Yap · 1997
This article describes three agents that help a user locate useful or interesting information on the World Wide Web. The agents learn a probabilistic profile to find, classify, or rank other sources of information that are likely to interest the user.