Ontological approach for effective generation of concept based user profiles to improve personalization

Abstract

The last decade has witnessed rapid growth and adaptation of the newlineInternet As a large community of users depends on the Internet for daytoday newlineservices an efficient and effective mechanism is required for information newlinesearch and retrieval The Internet contains a wide range of information and newlineserves a range of communities of users Keyword based search mechanism is newlinemainly used to gather information The major challenges are information newlinemismatch uselessness of the information and overload of information This newlinehas a tremendous impact on the relevance of the information search and newlineprompts for gathering knowledge and capturing information needs of end newlineusers Concept based web personalization has played a major role to alleviate newlinethe problems To improve the effectiveness of information personalization newlinethe generation of user profile must be more efficient and accurate newline newline