A PERSONAL NEWS SERVICE BASED ON A USER MODEL NEURAL NETWORK

New methods are needed for accessing very large information services. This paper proposes the use of a user model neural network to allow be tter access to a news service. The network is constructed on the basis of articles read, and articles marked as rejected. It adapts over tim e to better represent the user's interests and rank the articles suppl ied by the news service. Using an augmented keyword search we can also search for articles using keywords in conjunction with the user model neural network. Trials of the system in a USENET news environment sho w promising results for the use of this approach in information retrie val.