A content-collaborative recommender that exploits WordNet-based user profiles for neighborhood formation

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 217-255

  Degemmis, Marco ^a   Lops, Pasquale ^a   Semeraro, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Content based filtering; Hybrid recommenders; Machine learning; Neighborhood formation in recommender systems; User modeling; WordNet

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; CONTENT-BASED FILTERING; HYBRID RECOMMENDERS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; USER MODELING; WORDNET;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 34249308531     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-006-9023-4     Document Type: Article

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