System and method for recommending interesting content in an information stream

摘要

A system and method for recommending interesting content is provided. A content profile including a vector of words extracted from messages associated with a user is obtained (61). One or more content pointer profiles each including a vector of words associated with a content pointer located within one or more messages are obtained (62). The content profile is compared (63) with each of the content pointer profiles. A relevance score is determined (64) for that content pointer by calculating a similarity between the user words and the content pointer words. The content pointers are ranked based on the relevance score. A threshold is applied to select the content pointers and those content pointers that satisfy the threshold are selected as the content pointers most relevant to the user.