A Multimodal Approach to Incremental User Profile Building

The World Wide Web is the largest distributed information source which is accessed by billions of peopleall across the world. A unique content source on the web can be accessed by various users for differentpurposes. Hence it becomes mandatory to capture specific information requirements of each user. Thispaper proposes a multimodal approach to build profile of users in an incremental manner. The approachproposed in this paper achieves the goal of building user profiles using a hybrid approach. The profilebuilding process is further enriched with the incorporation of web page segmentation technique involvingpage trees and densitometry. The proposed model extracts the requirement context of the user by utilizingboth local and global sources during the profile building process. The experiments conducted on theproposed model confirm the effectiveness of the approach and highlights the channels which carries anedge over others in capturing the user interest.