Using Wikipedia to boost collaborative filtering techniques

RecSys'11 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 285-288

  Katz, Gilad ^a   Ofek, Nir ^a   Shapira, Bracha ^a   Rokach, Lior ^a   Shani, Guy ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

cold start problem; collaborative filtering; recommender systems; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; COLD START PROBLEMS; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING TECHNIQUES; DATA SETS; USER RATING; WIKIPEDIA;

FORECASTING; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 82555183086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2043932.2043984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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