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Semantic Representation of a Geo-Social User Profile for a Personalised Information Retrieval

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  • Tahar Rafa

    (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of MEDEA, Algeria†LRIA Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, USTHB, Algiers, Algeria)

  • Samir Kechid

    (#x2020;LRIA Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, USTHB, Algiers, Algeria)

Abstract

The user-centred information retrieval needs to introduce semantics into the user modelling for a meaningful representation of user interests. The semantic representation of the user interests helps to improve the identification of the user’s future cognitive needs. In this paper, we present a semantic-based approach for a personalised information retrieval. This approach is based on the design and the exploitation of a user profile to represent the user and his interests. In this user profile, we combine an ontological semantics issued from WordNet ontology, and a personal semantics issued from the different user interactions with the search system and with his social and situational contexts of his previous searches. The personal semantics considers the co-occurrence relations between relevant components of the user profile as semantic links. The user profile is used to improve two important phases of the information search process: (i) expansion of the initial user query and (ii) adaptation of the search results to the user interests.

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  • Tahar Rafa & Samir Kechid, 2021. "Semantic Representation of a Geo-Social User Profile for a Personalised Information Retrieval," Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 20(04), pages 1-26, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jikmxx:v:20:y:2021:i:04:n:s0219649221500441
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219649221500441
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