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Automatic news recommendations via aggregated profiling

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Today, people have only limited, valuable leisure time at their hands which they want to fill in as good as possible according to their own interests, whereas broadcasters want to produce and distribute news items as fast and targeted as possible. These (developing) news stories can be characterised as dynamic, chained, and distributed events in addition to which it is important to aggregate, link, enrich, recommend, and distribute these news event items as targeted as possible to the individual, interested user. In this paper, we show how personalised recommendation and distribution of news events, described using an RDF/OWL representation of the NewsML-G2 standard, can be enabled by automatically categorising and enriching news events metadata via smart indexing and linked open datasets available on the web of data. The recommendations—based on a global, aggregated profile, which also takes into account the (dis)likings of peer friends—are finally fed to the user via a personalised RSS feed. As such, the ultimate goal is to provide an open, user-friendly recommendation platform that harnesses the end-user with a tool to access useful news event information that goes beyond basic information retrieval. At the same time, we provide the (inter)national community with standardised mechanisms to describe/distribute news event and profile information.

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  1. http://www.ibbt.be/en/projects/overview-projects/p/detail/pisa/

  2. http://www.iptc.org/site/News_Exchange_Formats/

  3. http://iptc.cms.apa.at/std/EventsML-G2/

  4. http://www.ebu.ch/metadata/ontologies/NML2/

  5. http://semanticweb.org/wiki/FOAF

  6. http://www.iknow.be/

  7. http://www.opencalais.com/

  8. http://www.geonames.org/

  9. http://dbpedia.org/

  10. http://www.freebase.com/

  11. http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tom_Barman

  12. RSS:Really Simple Syndication, also see http://www.rss-specifications.com/

  13. http://www.amazon.com/

  14. http://www.pandora.com/

  15. http://www.facebook.com/

  16. http://www.comscore.com/

  17. http://www.myspace.com/

  18. http://www.twitter.com/

  19. http://www.linkedin.com/

  20. http://www.netlog.com/

  21. http://www.reddit.com/

  22. http://digg.com/

  23. http://openlike.org/

  24. http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Events.rsvp

  25. http://openid.net/

  26. http://semanticweb.org/wiki/FOAF

  27. http://sioc-project.org/

  28. http://oauth.net/

  29. http://www.grouplens.org/node/73

  30. http://www.netflixprize.com/

  31. http://www.pianofiles.com/

  32. http://jetty.codehaus.org/jetty/

  33. http://www.deredactie.be/

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The research activities as described in this paper were funded by Ghent University, the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT), the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT), the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (FWO-Flanders), and the European Union.

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  1. IBBT, ELIS – Multimedia Lab, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Erik Mannens, Sam Coppens, Davy Van Deursen & Rik Van de Walle

  2. IBBT, INTEC –WiCa, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Toon De Pessemier

  3. VRT-Medialab, VRT, Brussels, Belgium

    Hendrik Dacquin & Robbie De Sutter

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Mannens, E., Coppens, S., De Pessemier, T. et al. Automatic news recommendations via aggregated profiling. Multimed Tools Appl 63, 407–425 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-011-0844-8

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