Open Directory Project and Personalization of Online (Re)sources

News web portals present information, in previously defined topic taxonomy, in both multimedia as well as textual format, that cover all aspects of our daily lives. The information presented has a high refresh rate and as such offers a local as well as a global snapshot of the world. This book presents information extraction techniques and their use in categorisation schemes standardisation and automatic classification of newly published content. As the personalisation method, weighted Voronoi diagrams are proposed. The aim of the work is to create a virtual browsing profile based on the semantic value of information of visited nodes (web pages formatted with HTML language). The results can greatly contribute to the applicability of the personalisation data to specific information sources, including various web news portals.