Personalized News Recommendation Using Twitter

Nirmal Jonnalagedda, Susan Gauch
2013 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT)  
Online news reading has become a popular way to read news articles from a huge collection of news sources around the globe. News recommender systems help users manage this flood by suggesting articles based on user interests rather than presenting articles in order of their occurrence. We present our research on developing personalized news recommendation system with the help of a popular micro-blogging service, "Twitter." News articles are ranked based on the popularity of the article
more » ... d with the help of the tweets from Twitter's public timeline. In addition, users construct profiles based on their interests and news articles are also ranked based on their match to the user profile. By combining these two approaches, we present a hybrid news recommendation model that recommends interesting news stories to the user based on their popularity as well as their relevance to the user profile. I.
doi:10.1109/wi-iat.2013.144 dblp:conf/iat/JonnalageddaG13 fatcat:u3thzngqorgofdftfc37xq4yfe