Description of SEKTbar

Purpose and Functionality

Internet Explorer plugin for monitoring user activities at the client side and server side components for collaborative filtering support – the software builds user profiles from users’ activities, shares them in collaborative mode and exports them into PROTON.

Availability, Preconditions and Licensing

Components are publicly available in binaries at www.textmining.net
The software runs under Windows platform.

The tool is free for research purposes.

Integration with other SEKT Tools

Developed on the top of Text-Garden tool and integrated with Text Garden, development so far inside the SEKT project.
User profiling components used in SEKTbar are integrated in Knowledge Spaces tool of SEKT WP5 [1].

Publications

DAVIES, J., DUKE, Alistair, KINGS, Nick, MLADENIĆ, Dunja, BONTCHEVA, Kalina, GRČAR, Miha, BENJAMINS, Richard, CONTRERAS, Jesus, BLAZQUES CÍVICO, Mercedes, GLOVER, Tim. Next generation knowledge access. Journal of knowledge management, 2005, vol. 9, 64-84

GRČAR, Miha, MLADENIĆ, Dunja, GROBELNIK, Marko. User profiling for interest-focused browsing history. In: Proceedings of the 8th International multi-conference Information Society IS-2005, MARKIČ, Olga, GAMS, Matjaž, KORDEŠ, Urban, HERIČKO, Marjan, MLADENIĆ, Dunja, GROBELNIK, Marko, ROZMAN, Ivan, RAJKOVIČ, Vladislav, URBANČIČ, Tanja, BERNIK, Mojca, BOHANEC, Marko (eds.), October 2005, Ljubljana: Institut “Jožef Stefan”, 2005, 182-185.

GRČAR, Miha, MLADENIĆ, Dunja, FORTUNA, Blaž, GROBELNIK, Marko. Data sparsity issues in the collaborative filtering framework. In: Advances in web mining and web usage analysis : 7th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery on the Web, WebKDD 2005, Chicago, IL, USA, August 21, 2005 : revised papers, Lecture notes in computer science, Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, vol. 4198. Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer, cop. 2006, 58-76.

GRČAR, Miha, MLADENIĆ, Dunja, GROBELNIK, Marko. Applying collaborative filtering to real-life corporate data. In: From data and information analysis to knowledge engineering : proceedings of the 29th annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V., University of Magdeburg, March 9-11, 2005, Studies in classification, data analysis, and knowledge organization. Berlin: Springer, 2006, 374-381.

GRČAR, Miha, MLADENIĆ, Dunja, GROBELNIK, Marko. User profiling for the web. Comput. Sci. Inf. Syst., 2006, vol. 3, no. 2, 1-29.

[1] DAVIES, J., DUKE, Alistair, KINGS, Nick, MLADENIĆ, Dunja, BONTCHEVA, Kalina, GRČAR, Miha, BENJAMINS, Richard, CONTRERAS, Jesus, BLAZQUES CÍVICO, Mercedes, GLOVER, Tim. Next generation knowledge access. Journal of knowledge management, 2005, vol. 9, pp. 64-84.