Work Weighting Based on User's Browsing History
This chapter presents discussion of word weighting algorithms in user modelling and adaptive information systems. We specifically address two types of user interest: (1) broad and consistent interest; and (2) narrow, spot interest. A user’s consistent interests can be modelled utilising the user’s information access history; a user’s spot interests can be determined based on that. We developed a word-weighting algorithm to measure the user’s spot interest. The information access history of a user is represented as a set of words. It is considered to be a user model. This method weights words in a document according to their relevancy to the user model. The relevancy is measured by the biases of co-occurrence, called the Interest Relevance Measure, between a word in a document and words in the user model. The future methodology of word weighting is described herein while demonstrating our approach.