Efficient bayesian hierarchical user modeling for recommendation system

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 47-54

  Zhang, Yi ^a   Koren, Jonathan ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical models; EM algorithm; Information filtering; Personalization; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; FEEDBACK; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; USER INTERFACES;

BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODELS; EM ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION FILTERING; PERSONALIZATION; RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 36448969351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277752     Document Type: Article

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