Stacking recommendation engines with additional meta-features

RecSys'09 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 109-116

  Bao, Xinlong ^a   Bergman, Lawrence ^b   Thompson, Rich ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Content based recommender; Engine hybridization; Ensemble learning; Hybrid recommender systems; Machine learning; Meta feature; Stacked generalization; Stacking

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; CONTENT-BASED; CONTENT-BASED RECOMMENDER; ENSEMBLE LEARNING; HYBRID RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; MACHINE-LEARNING; METAFEATURE; STACKED GENERALIZATION;

EDUCATION; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; HYBRID COMPUTERS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; ROBOT LEARNING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

ENGINES;

EID: 72249094965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1639714.1639734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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