A query expansion and user profile enrichment approach to improve the performance of recommender systems operating on a folksonomy

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-86

  De Meo, Pasquale ^a   Quattrone, Giovanni ^a   Ursino, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Folksonomies; Personalised query answering; Query expansion; Recommender systems; Social tagging; Tag ranking

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; CONTENT-BASED; FOLKSONOMIES; QUERY ANSWERING; QUERY EXPANSION; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; USER NEED; USER PROFILE; USER QUERY;

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EID: 76549135604     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-010-9072-6     Document Type: Article

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