Title
Extraction of Contextualized User Interest Profiles in Social Sharing Platforms
Abstract
Along with the emergence of the Web 2.0, E-learning more often takes place in open environments such as wikis, blogs, and resource sharing platforms. Nowadays, many companies deploy social media technologies to foster the knowledge transfer in the enterprise. They offer Enterprise 2.0 platforms where knowledge workers can share contents according to their different topics of interest. In this article we present an approach extracting contextualized user profiles in an enterprise resource sharing platform according to the users' different topics of interest. The system analyses the social annotations of each user's preferred resources and identifies thematic groups. For every group a weighted term vector is derived that represents the respective topic of interest. Each user profile consists of several such vectors that way enabling recommendation lists with a high degree of inter-topic diversity as well as targeted context-sensitive recommendations. The proposed approach has been tested in our Enterprise 2.0 platform ALOE. A first evaluation has shown that the method is likely to identify reasonable user interest topics and that resource recommendations for these topics are widely appreciated by the users.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
user modeling,topic detection,Web 2.0 resource sharing,E-Learning 2.0,Enterprise 2.0
Field
DocType
Volume
Social sharing,World Wide Web,Computer science
Journal
16
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
16
0948-695X
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.52
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rafael Schirru1366.24
Stephan Baumann2929.70
Martin Memmel3457.96
Andreas Dengel41926280.42