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Tech Report kmi-01-05 Abstract

myPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service
Techreport ID: kmi-01-05
Date: 2001
Author(s): Yannis Kalfoglou & Maria Vargas-Vera

In this paper we present myPlanet, an ontology-driven personalised Web-based service. We extended the existing infrastructure of the PlanetOnto news publishing system. Our concerns were mainly to provide lightweight means for ontology maintenance and ease the access to repositories of news items, a rich resource for information sharing. We reason about the information being shared by providing an ontology-driven interest-profiling tool which enable users to specify their interests. We also developed ontology-driven heuristics to find news items related to users' interests. This paper argues for the role of ontology-driven personalised Web-based services in information sharing.