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Improving new user recommendations with rule-based induction on cold user data

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Nathalie Denos,

Catherine BerrutAuthors Info & Claims

RecSys '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM conference on Recommender systems

Pages 121 - 128

https://doi.org/10.1145/1297231.1297251

Published: 19 October 2007 Publication History

Abstract

With recommender systems, users receive items recommended on the basis of their profile. New users experience the cold start problem: as their profile is very poor, the system performs very poorly. In this paper, classical new user cold start techniques are improved by exploiting the cold user data, i.e. the user data that is readily available (e.g. age, occupation, location, etc.), in order to automatically associate the new user with a better first profile. Relying on the existing α-community spaces model, a rule-based induction process is used and a recommendation process based on the "level of agreement" principle is defined. The experiments show that the quality of recommendations compares to that obtained after a classical new user technique, while the new user effort is smaller as no initial ratings are asked.

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Index Terms

Improving new user recommendations with rule-based induction on cold user data
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Retrieval tasks and goals
      1. Document filtering
      2. Information extraction
    2. Users and interactive retrieval
      1. Personalization
  2. World Wide Web
    1. Web searching and information discovery
      1. Personalization

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RecSys '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM conference on Recommender systems

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