Active learning strategies for rating elicitation in collaborative filtering: A system-wide perspective

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Elahi, Mehdi ^a   Ricci, Francesco ^a   Rubens, Neil ^b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active learning; Cold start; Rating elicitation; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; ACTIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES; COLD START; CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; EVALUATION MEASURES; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE; USER-CENTRIC EVALUATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

RATING;

EID: 84891751057     PISSN: 21576904     EISSN: 21576912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2542182.2542195     Document Type: Article

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