Improving new user recommendations with rule-based induction on cold user data

RecSys'07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 121-128

  Nguyen, An Te ^a   Denos, Nathalie ^b   Berrut, Catherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Cold start problem; Cold user data; Collaborative filtering; New user problem; Recommender systems; Rule based induction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COLD START PROBLEM; COLD USER DATA; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; NEW-USER PROBLEM; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; RULE-BASED INDUCTION;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 42149191261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1297231.1297251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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