PALTask: An Automated Means to Retrieve Personalized Web Resources in a Multiuser Setting

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dc.contributor.authorJain, Pratik
dc.contributor.supervisorMuller, Hausi A.
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-26T22:51:41Z
dc.date.available2015-06-26T22:51:41Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015-06-26
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Computer Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractWhen performing web searches, users manually open a web browser, direct it to a search engine, input keywords, and finally manually filter and select relevant results. This repetitive task can negatively impact the user's experience, something the automation and personalization of web search can address. This thesis presents PALTask, an Instant Messaging (IM) application that exploits context of both the user and their conversation in order to automate and personalize related web tasks such as web searches relevant to the conversation. PALTask dynamically gathers context and provides feedback from the user and the system at runtime including keywords from the conversation and running them through various search services such as YouTube and Google to retrieve relevant results. This thesis also explores various natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as keyword extraction, sentiment analysis, and stemming. These NLP tasks help in the collection of dynamic context at runtime, identifying personalized context, and analyzing it to improve the user's experience. We also present our keyword ranking algorithm which aims to improve accuracy when retrieving web resources.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6279
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectPALTasken_US
dc.subjectChatting Toolen_US
dc.subjectContext Gatheringen_US
dc.subjectKeyword Extractoren_US
dc.titlePALTask: An Automated Means to Retrieve Personalized Web Resources in a Multiuser Settingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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