%0 Journal Article
%T Web User Profile Using XUL and Information Retrieval Techniques
%A Dan MUNTEANU
%J Annals of Dunarea de Jos
%D 2008
%I Universitatea Dunarea de Jos
%X This paper presents the importance of user profile in information retrieval, information filtering and recommender systems using explicit and implicit feedback. A Firefox extension (based on XUL) used for gathering data needed to infer a web user profile and an example file with collected data are presented. Also an algorithm for creating and updating the user profile and keeping track of a fixed number k of subjects of interest is presented.
%K web user profile
%K Firefox extension
%K term weighted vector space model
%K document representation
%U http://www.ann.ugal.ro/eeai/archives/2008/Lucrare-2-3-DMunteanu-p18-21.pdf