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Displaying Profiles

Each profile represents a subset of the total set of user interests. The profile can be viewed by SHIFT-clicking on the corresponding Profile Icon in the Population Window. This brings up the Profile Window (see figure ).

The Profile Window can only display one field at a time. The set of values belonging to the currently displayed field is shown along with their weights. A few text editing operators (namely, ``Add'', ``Delete'' and ``Edit'') are provided to make editing changes to a profile. To change the current field being displayed, the user can click on the field name which pops a menu of field name choices.

It is also possible to view the news articles retrieved by an individual profile (as opposed to those retrieved by the population as a whole). Click on the button labeled ``News'' to display the news retrieved by this profile.


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