An intelligent agent-based system for multilingual financial news digest

摘要

Online financial news from different sources is widely available on the internet. There are systems available to help investors extract and analyse the financial news from these sources but many of these systems present news articles without categorisation and do not provide enough query options to accurately yet comprehensively search for news. In this paper, we extend our previous work to develop an intelligent agent-based system for multilingual news extraction. We adopt a document categorisation approach based on fuzzy keyword classification. The system applies fuzzy clustering to obtain a classification of keywords by concepts of the category. A category profile is developed and used as a search interface for document browsing. Experimental results show that the proposed categorise news agent is capable of categorising news documents with a reasonable rate of accuracy and the grouping news agent is able to assemble news groups of similar contents to facilitate information retrieval.