Personalized broadcast news navigator
AssigneeThe MITRE Corporation
InventorsMark T. Maybury, Warren R. Greiff, Stanley M. Boykin, Chadwick A McHenry, Lisa M Ferro
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Abstract
A system and method are provided that use explicitly and implicitly derived models of user information needs and content and presentation preferences together with relevancy feedback to expand a user's original query to the most related terms in a corpus and/or to allow the user to provide interactive feedback to enhance the relevance of selected news stories and display profile of the selected news stories. By personalizing both the selection of stories and the form in which they are delivered, users are provided with tailored broadcast news.
Claims61
A method for dynamically customizing a display profile and a content profile used to identify and control display of search results to a user, comprising:
- (a) authenticating the user;
- (b) accessing the display profile corresponding to the user;
- (c) searching a database of information extracted from broadcast news sources using the content profile to generate the search results;
- (d) displaying the search results using the display profile;
- (e) determining relevance of the search results;
- (f) based on the determined relevance, refining at least one of the display profile and the content profile;
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- (g) repeating steps (c) through (f) to provide refined search results.
A system for dynamically customizing a display profile and a content profile used to identify and control display of search results to a user, comprising
- means for authenticating the user;
- means for accessing the display profile corresponding to the user;
- means for searching a database of information extracted from broadcast news sources using the content profile to generate the search results;
- means for displaying the search results using the display profile;
- means for determining relevance of the search results;
- means for refining at least one of the display profile and the content profile based on the determined relevance.
A computer program product comprising a tangible computer useable medium having a computer program logic recorded thereon for enabling a processor to dynamically customize a display profile and a content profile used to identify and control display of search results to a user, the computer program logic comprising:
- accessing means for enabling a processor to access the display profile corresponding to the user;
- searching means for enabling a processor to search a database of information extracted from broadcast news sources using the content profile to generate the search results;
- displaying means for enabling a processor to display the search results using the display profile;
- determining means for enabling a processor to determine relevance of the search results;
- refining means for enabling a processor to refine at least one of the display profile and the content profile based on the determined relevance.
A method for dynamically customizing search results, comprising:
- (b) accessing a display profile corresponding to a user;
- (c) searching a database of information extracted from broadcast news sources using a content profile to generate the search results;
- (d) displaying the search results using a display profile;
- (e) determining relevance of the search results;
- (g) refining, based on the determined relevance, at least one of the display profile and the content profile;
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- (h) repeating steps (c) through (g) to provide refined search results.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.