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....web site is provided. 1 Introduction In recent years, the growth of the world wide web has lead to the proliferation of a large number of electronic commerce sites which require the use of personalization systems. Such systems include recommender systems and information filtering techniques [1, 9, 10, 11, 18, 23]. In addition, electronic commerce sites and portals may have needs for applications in which the user behavior at the site is used in order to make recommendations about advertisements Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or ....

....using personalization software at the web site itself. The features provided by a given personalization system are critically dependent upon its architecture and the goals with respect to which it was created. Much of the recent research has touched on various algorithmic and architectural aspects [2, 3, 4, 8, 10, 11, 18, 19, 20] of personalization systems; an integrated view of the system architecture, recommendation algorithms and interfaces is valuable from the point of view of both researchers and implementors. In this paper, we discuss a personalization system for management of news. We discuss an overview of the ....

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P. K. Chan. A non-invasive learning approach to building web user profiles. KDD99 Workshop on Web Usage and User Profiling.

....users are based on the examination of users profiles. The goal is to devise techniques that are applicable for both content based and collaborative filtering. The maintenance of the profiles is performed according to a users behavior, always taking into account the users ratings on documents [1,13,14]. Hence, techniques from content based systems are used in order for the documents to be analyzed and the user profiles to be properly updated. Thereafter, the algorithm for user classification into communities is activated with the result of classifying relevant users into the same community. ....

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....the needs of the user in advance. Regardless of the ultimate application, the task is the same to build a model that can predict future user actions. Building such a model can take various forms, including user interviews and explicit feedback, or by passively watching the user [MMS85, Cha99] This chapter focuses on perhaps the most common source of information about the user the user s past actions. However, we are also concerned with building and using those predictions within an interactive system typically one that uses each action as a chance to learn and an ....

....(that stores all user requests) would have a recurrence rate of 50.9 for cacheable resources (47.3 for all resources) From this analysis we conclude that there is significant potential for content based prediction of future Web page requests when caching is considered. 6. 3 Related Work Chan [Cha99] outlines a non invasive learning approach to construct Web user profiles that incorporates content, linkage, as well as other factors. It uses frequency of visitation, whether bookmarked, time spent on page, and the percentage of child links have been visited to estimate user interest in a page. ....

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Philip K. Chan. A non-invasive learning approach to building Web user profiles. In Proceedings of WebKDD'99, pages 7--12, San Diego, August 1999. Revised version in Springer LNCS Vol. 1836.

....constructed in a truly one to one manner since these rules are specified by the expert rather than learned from the data and are applicable only to groups of customers. In addition to the developments in the industry, the profiling problem was also studied in the data mining academic community in [30, 31, 6, 2, 24]. In particular, 30, 31] studied this problem within the context of fraud detection in the cellular phone industry. This was done by learning rules pertaining to individual customers from the cellular phone usage data using the rule learning system RL [26] However, these discovered rules were ....

....The proposed method provides a new approach to deriving association rules that segment users based on their transac tional characteristics. However, it does not derive behavior of an individual user in a one to one fashion [63] Still another approach to the profiling problem was presented by [24] in the context of providing personalized Web search. In this approach the user profile consists of a Web Access Graph summarizing Web access patterns by the user, and a Page Interest Estimator characterizing interests of the user in various Web pages. Although the approach presented by [24] goes ....

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.... describing who the user are and how they behave [25] 26] An overview of what the user profiles and user behavior are and how they can be implemented in various Internet based information system can be found in [25] The user profiles have been discussed in many topics [26] 27] 28] [29]. Furthermore, there are various implementations of user profile in online newspaper personalization. Today, many newspapers are available on the Internet. Kamba et al. 30] developed Antagonomy, a system that composes personalized newspaper on the Web. The system monitors user operations on the ....

P.IC Chan, 'A non-invasive Learning Approach to Building Web User Profiles,' In Workshop on Web Usage Analysis and User Profiling (WEBKDD'99), August 1999.

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.... 1884 [538] 133] 118 49 [197] 106] 28 3 [ 96] 84] 1038 6423 [ 86] 60] 4 14 [ 71] 46] 1884 994 [ 53] 38] 16 13 [ 16] 31] 994 4 4 [ 14] 27] 995 29 12 [ 11] 20] 7 6423 21 [ 8] 17] 27 1884 15 [ 8] 14] 29 7 [ 7] 8] 6423 11 [ 7] [ 7] 1018 5 [ 6] 6] 1008 29 [ 5] 6] 12 45 [ 3] 5] 1000 42 [ 3] 5] i 41 [ 2] 5] 79 129 [ 2] 5] 1001 1010 [ 2] 4] 1017 63 [ 2] In this output we explore a focus path (4 29 6423 1884) Inflows are immediate predecessors of the focus path. Out flows are ....

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....(that stores all user requests) would have a recurrence rate of 50.9 for cacheable resources (47.3 for all resources) From this analysis we conclude that there is significant potential for content based prediction of future Web page requests when caching is considered. 3. RELATED WORK Chan [12] outlines a non invasive learning approach to construct Web user profiles, that incorporates content, linkage, as well as other factors. It uses frequency of visitation, whether bookmarked, time spent on page, and the percentage of child links have been visited to estimate user interest in a page. ....

.... We could also consider modifying the content seen by the user to give hints or suggestions of recommended or preloaded content (as in Letizia [45, 46] WebWatcher, QuIC [29] and common uses of WBI [5] However, our preference is to build a user model as unobtrusively as possible (as in [12]) to perform prefetching behind the scenes. For the purposes of this study, this means we cannot ask the user explicitly of his or her interest, nor change the content, but it does enable us to be able to work o#ine with logs of standard usage. Therefore, we will not consider obtrusive approaches ....

P. K. Chan. A non-invasive learning approach to building Web user profiles. In Proceedings of WebKDD'99, pages 7--12, San Diego, Aug. 1999. Revised version in Springer LNCS Vol. 1836.

....words approach in storing user profile. However, SmartPush requires news providers to provide the semantic meta data. The concept hierarchy is also determined by the content provider. In the context of web browsing, there are several examples with regards to per sonalization systems. For example [9] uses implicit feedback to profile users browsing behavior. In particular, the system analyzes activity logs of a proxy server that in tercepts requests coming out of a gateway and logs browsing information. Topics of interest are calculated using a page interest estimator coupled with vector ....

CHAN, P K., A non-invasive learning approach to building web user profiles, in Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 1999.

....words approach in storing user pro le. However, SmartPush requires news providers to provide the semantic meta data. The concept hierarchy is also determined by the content provider. In the context of web browsing, there are several examples with regards to personalization systems. For example [9] uses implicit feedback to pro le users browsing behavior. In particular, the system analyzes activity logs of a proxy server that intercepts requests coming out of a gateway and logs browsing information. Topics of interest are calculated using a page interest estimator coupled with vector ....

Chan, P K., A non-invasive learning approach to building web user pro les, in Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 1999.

....manner since these rules are specified by the expert rather than learned from the data and are applicable only to groups of customers. In addition to the developments in the industry, the profiling problem was also studied in the data mining academic community in [FP96, FP97, ASY98, AT99, Cha99] In particular, FP96, FP97] studied this problem within the context of fraud detection in the cellular phone industry. This was done by learning rules pertaining to individual customers from the cellular phone usage data using the rule learning system RL [CP90] However, these discovered rules ....

....The proposed method provides a new approach to deriving association rules that segment users based on their transactional characteristics. However, it does not derive behavior of an individual user in a one to one fashion [PR93] Still another approach to the profiling problem was presented by [Cha99] in the context of providing personalized Web search. In this approach the user profile consists of a Web Access Graph summarizing Web access patterns by the user, and a Page Interest Estimator characterizing interests of the user in various Web pages. Although the approach presented by [Cha99] ....

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....saves an item for later use, and Reference where a user links all or part of an item into another item. They suggest two strategies for using implicit ratings. Our work experimentally evaluates one of their two strategies using implicit ratings from one of the three categories proposed. Chan [6] proposes measuring a user s interest in a Web page based on the number of visits to that page, whether or not the page is bookmarked by the user, the time reading the page normalized by the page length, how recently the page was visited and the percentage of links o of the page that are ....

P. Chan. A Non-Invasive Learning Approach to Building Web User Proles. In Workshop on Web Usage Analysis and User Proling, pages 7 - 12, 1999.

....items that are being purchased frequently. That is, quite often P(u v) is high, as a result of the fact that u occurs very frequently and not because v and u tend to occur together. This problem has been recognized earlier by researchers in information retrieval as well as recommendation systems [14, 13, 8, 5]. One way of correcting this problem is to divide P(u v) with a quantity that depends on the occurrence frequency of item u. Two different methods have been proposed for achieving this. The first one inspired from the inverse document 4 frequency scaling performed in information retrieval ....

P. Chan. A non-invasive learning approach to building web user profiles. In Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD International Conference, 1999.

....items that are being purchased frequently. That is, quite often P(u v) is high, as a result of the fact that u occurs very frequently and not because v and u tend to occur together. This problem has been recognized earlier by researchers in information retrieval as well as recommendation systems [14, 13, 8, 5]. One way of correcting this problem is to divide P(u v) with a quantity that depends on the occurrence frequency of item u. Two different methods have been proposed for achieving this. The first one inspired from the inverse document frequency scaling performed in information retrieval systems, ....

P. Chan. A non-invasive learning approach to building web user profiles. In Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD International Conference, 1999.

....interpreted as the number of times higher than random that two items occur together. A fractional number can be inverted and interpreted as the number of times lower than random that two items occur. Interestingly, lift is related to the Mutual Information Criterion (MIC) from information theory [3]. MIC is equal to log of lift. We favor the untransformed lift score because it is easier to interpret for the user. 4.1.3 Expected Profit If we assume mutual independence between products, then the expected profit after buying a product a is equal to the probability of buying b given a, Pr(b a) ....

Chan, P., A non-invasive learning approach to building web user profiles, Workshop on Web usage analysis and user profiling, Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, San Diego. (August, 1999).

....we cluster features in the documents; documents are then assigned to the clusters. We propose to model general longterm and specific short term interests with a concept hierarchy called User Interest Hierarchy (UIH) The resulting hierarchy (UIH) is used to build Page Interest Estimator (PIE) s [3] as well as providing a context. For each cluster in UIH, the associated documents are used as positive examples for learning a PIE. The constructed UIH and its corresponding learned PIE s are used for estimating interest of a new document. However, current clustering methods do not generate ....

....within a window size are related. To simplify our discussion, we have been assuming the window size to be the entire length of a document (details in Sec. 4.4) That is, two words co occur if they are in the same document. 4.2. 1 AEMI We use AEMI (Augmented Expected Mutual Information) [3] as a similarity function. AEMI is enhanced version of MI (Mutual Information) and EMI (Expected Mutual Information) Unlike MI which considers only one corner of the confusion matrix and EMI which sums the MI of all four corners of the confusion matrix, AEMI sums supporting evidence and subtracts ....

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