Methods and apparatus for providing information of interest to one or more users

A system for providing textual information that is personalized to at least one user, the system comprising:

• at least one computer hardware processor;
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• at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one computer hardware processor, cause the at least one computer hardware processor to perform:
• receiving user context information including textual information indicative of an interest associated with the at least one user;
• identifying or generating an active concept in a semantic network, the active concept representing at least a portion of the user context information, wherein, after performance of the identifying or generating, the semantic network comprises a first node representing the active concept;
• synthesizing, in response to the received user context information, a new concept that semantically relevant to the active concept and that was not in the semantic network prior to receiving the user context information, the synthesizing based on the active concept and at least one other concept in the semantic network and comprising augmenting the semantic network with a second node representing the new concept, the second node being different from the first node;
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• providing textual information that is personalized to the at least one user, wherein the textual information is selected based on the recitation in the textual information of the new concept semantically relevant to the active concept.

At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one computer hardware processor, cause the at least one computer hardware processor to perform:

• receiving user context information including textual information indicative of an interest associated with the at least one user;
• identifying or generating an active concept in a semantic network, the active concept representing at least a portion of the user context information, wherein, after performance of the identifying or generating, the semantic network comprises a first node representing the active concept;
• synthesizing, in response to the received user context information, a new concept that is semantically relevant to the active concept and that was not in the semantic network prior to receiving the user context information, the synthesizing based on the active concept and at least one other concept in the semantic network and comprising augmenting the semantic network with a second node representing the new concept, the second node being different from the first node;
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• providing textual information that is personalized to the at least one user, wherein the textual information is selected based on the recitation in the textual information of the new concept semantically relevant to the active concept.