Perspective-based content filtering

A content filtering system, comprising:

• a content crawling and indexing component that is configured to index a plurality of content items;
• a content/user relation determination component that is configured to identify one or more people that are associated with each of the indexed content items and to obtain and store information about the identified people associated with each of the indexed content items;
• a user identification component that is configured to identify an end-user or characteristics of the end-user;
• a context determination component that is configured to determine a user context associated with the user;
• a perspectives determination component that is configured to determine one or more perspectives based on the identified end-user or the identified end-user characteristics and the determined user context;
• and
• a content selection component that is configured to filter the indexed content items by matching the stored information about the identified people associated with each of the indexed content items to the determined one or more perspectives.

A method for filtering content for an end-user, comprising:

• (a) identifying an end-user or characteristics of the end user;
• (b) receiving a user context generated on or behalf of the end-user;
• (c) determining one or more perspective based on the identified end-user or the identified end-user characteristics and the user context;
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• (d) filtering indexed content items by matching stored information about people associated with each of the indexed content items to the determined one or more perspectives.