Personalized News Filtering and Summarization on the Web

Abstract

Information on the World Wide Web is congested with large amounts of news contents. Recommendation, filtering, and summarization of Web news have received much attention in Web intelligence, aiming to find interesting news and summarize concise content for users. In this paper, we present our research on developing the Personalized News Filtering and Summarization system (PNFS). An embedded learning component of PNFS induces a user interest model and recommends personalized news. A keyword knowledge base is maintained and provides a real-time update to reflect the general Web news topic information and the user's interest preferences. The non-news content irrelevant to the news Web page is filtered out. Keywords that capture the main topic of the news are extracted using lexical chains to represent semantic relations between words. An Example run of our PNFS system demonstrates the superiority of this Web intelligence system.