Capturing knowledge of user preferences: Ontologies in recommender systems

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Knowledge Capture

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 100-107

  Middleton, Stuart E ^a   De Roure, David C ^a   Shadbolt, Nigel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Ontology; Recommender system; User profiling

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ONTOLOGY;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 0035789846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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