Getting to know you: Learning new user preferences in recommender systems

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 127-134

  Rashid, Al Mamunur ^a   Albert, Istvan ^a   Cosley, Dan ^a   Lam, Shyong K ^a   McNee, Sean M ^a   Konstan, Joseph A ^a   Riedl, John ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Entropy; Information filtering; Recommender systems; Startup problem; User modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DECISION THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0036384150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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