Application of item response theory to collaborative filtering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5551 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 766-773

  Hu, Biyun ^a   Zhou, Yiming ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Li, Lin ^a   Shen, Lei ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Item response theory; K NN algorithm; Rating quality; Rating scale model

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; ITEM RESPONSE THEORY; K-NN ALGORITHM; RATING QUALITY; RATING SCALE MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SEARCHING;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EID: 69949111872     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01507-6_86     Document Type: Conference Paper

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