Learning user similarity and rating style for collaborative recommendation

Information Retrieval

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 395-410

  Cheung, Kwok Wai ^a   Tian, Lily F ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Machine learning; Rating style; Recommender systems; User similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843093841     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:inrt.0000011212.66249.b7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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