A semantic approach to improve neighborhood formation in collaborative recommender systems

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 7776-7788

  Martín Vicente, Manuela I ^a   Gil Solla, Alberto ^b   Ramos Cabrer, Manuel ^b   Pazos Arias, José J ^b   Blanco Fernández, Yolanda ^b   López Nores, Martín ^b  

^a GRADIANT   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Fake neighborhood; Semantic reasoning; Semantic similarity metric; Sparsity problem

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; SEMANTICS;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING TECHNIQUES; COLLABORATIVE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; E-COMMERCE WEBSITES; FAKE NEIGHBORHOOD; RECOMMENDATION STRATEGIES; SEMANTIC REASONING; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SPARSITY PROBLEMS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 84905279413     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.06.038     Document Type: Article

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