Wisdom of the better few: Cold start recommendation via representative based rating elicitation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 37-44

  Liu, Nathan N ^a   Meng, Xiangrui ^b   Liu, Chao ^c   Yang, Qiang ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

cold start; collaborative filtering; recommender systems

Indexed keywords

COLD START; COLD START PROBLEMS; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; MATRIX FACTORIZATIONS; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 82555195657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2043932.2043943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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