Method and apparatus for a user interest topology based on seeded user interest modeling

摘要

Methods and apparatuses are provided for user interest modeling. A method may include receiving an input from a user for specifying one or more topics from among a predetermined hierarchy of topics and subtopics. The method may additionally include retrieving one or more documents associated with the user and extracting language tokens from the documents based, at least in part, on the specified topics. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided.