Track: User Interfaces and Accessibility
Paper Title:
A Novel Clustering-based RSS Aggregator
Authors:
Abstract:
In recent years, different commercial Weblog subscribing systems
have been proposed to return stories from users subscribed feeds.
In this paper, we propose a novel clustering-based RSS aggregator
called as RSS Clusgator System (RCS) for Weblog reading. Note
that an RSS feed may have several different topics. A user may
only be interested in a subset of these topics. In addition there
could be many different stories from multiple RSS feeds, which
discuss similar topic from different perspectives. A user may be
interested in this topic but do not know how to collect all feeds
related to this topic. In contrast to many previous works, we
cluster all stories in RSS feeds into hierarchical structure to better
serve the readers. Through this way, users can easily find all their
interested stories. To make the system current, we propose a
flexible time window for incremental clustering. RCS utilizes
both link information and content information for efficient
clustering. Experiments show the effectiveness of RCS.
