Semantics-aware content-based recommender systems

Recommender Systems Handbook, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 119-159

  De Gemmis, M ^a   Lops, P ^a   Musto, C ^a   Narducci, F ^a   Semeraro, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

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Indexed keywords

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

CLASSICAL PROBLEMS; CONTENT-BASED RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; ENCYCLOPEDIC KNOWLEDGE; EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SEMANTIC APPROACH; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION; TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84956818835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7637-6_4     Document Type: Chapter

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