The Mindful Reader Project centers on the design and development of a machine learning-augmented newsfeed aggregation application. It seeks to reduce the time necessary for users to find interesting newsfeed articles, by building a user interest model from implicit and explicit article ratings and applying that model to rank incoming articles based on predicted user interest. The software was developed using code from the RSSOwl project; in tests, the user interest model grew more accurate with time.

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Creator

• Drouin, Christopher Matthew

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-043009-123612

Award

• Provost's MQP Award

Advisor

• Brown, David C.

Year

• 2009

Date created

• 2009-04-30

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-01-20