A unified approach to building hybrid recommender systems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 117-124

  Gunawardana, Asela ^a   Meek, Christopher ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Boltzmann machines; Cold start; Collaborative filtering; Content based filtering; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN MACHINES; COLD START; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; CONTENT BASED FILTERING; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

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EID: 72249108954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1639714.1639735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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