Applying Collaborative Filtering to Usenet News

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 77-87

  Konstan, Joseph A ^a   Miller, Bradley N ^b   Maltz, David ^c   Herlocker, Jonathan L ^c   Gordon, Lee R ^a,b   Riedl, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Net Perceptions   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; USER INTERFACES;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; USENET NEWS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0031103122     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/245108.245126     Document Type: Article

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