Providing relevant personalized recommendations for new users is one of the major challenges in recommender systems. This problem, known as the user cold start has been approached from different perspectives. In particular, cross-domain recommendation methods exploit data from source domains to address the lack of user preferences in a target domain. Most of the cross-domain approaches proposed so far follow the paradigm of collaborative filtering, and avoid analyzing the contents of the items, which are usually highly heterogeneous in the cross-domain setting. Content-based filtering, however, has been successfully applied in domains where item content and metadata play a key role. Such domains are not limited to scenarios where items do have text contents (e.g., books, news articles, scientific papers, and web pages), and where text mining and information retrieval techniques are often used. Potential application domains include those where items have associated metadata, e.g., genres, directors and actors for movies, and music styles, composers and themes for songs. With the advent of the Semantic Web, and its reference implementation Linked Data, a plethora of structured, interlinked metadata is available on the Web. These metadata represent a potential source of information to be exploited by content-based and hybrid filtering approaches. Motivated by the use of Linked Data for recommendation purposes, in this paper we present and evaluate a number of matrix factorization models for cross-domain collaborative filtering that leverage metadata as a bridge between items liked by users in different domains. We show that in case the underlying knowledge graph connects items from different domains and then in situations that benefit from cross-domain information, our models can provide better recommendations to new users while keeping a good trade-off between recommendation accuracy and diversity.

Addressing the user cold start with cross-domain collaborative filtering: exploiting item metadata in matrix factorization / Fernández-Tobías, Ignacio; Cantador, Iván; Tomeo, Paolo; Anelli, Vito Walter; Di Noia, Tommaso. - In: USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION. - ISSN 0924-1868. - STAMPA. - 29:2(2019), pp. 443-486. [10.1007/s11257-018-9217-6]

Addressing the user cold start with cross-domain collaborative filtering: exploiting item metadata in matrix factorization

Vito Walter Anelli;Tommaso Di Noia
2019-01-01

Abstract

Providing relevant personalized recommendations for new users is one of the major challenges in recommender systems. This problem, known as the user cold start has been approached from different perspectives. In particular, cross-domain recommendation methods exploit data from source domains to address the lack of user preferences in a target domain. Most of the cross-domain approaches proposed so far follow the paradigm of collaborative filtering, and avoid analyzing the contents of the items, which are usually highly heterogeneous in the cross-domain setting. Content-based filtering, however, has been successfully applied in domains where item content and metadata play a key role. Such domains are not limited to scenarios where items do have text contents (e.g., books, news articles, scientific papers, and web pages), and where text mining and information retrieval techniques are often used. Potential application domains include those where items have associated metadata, e.g., genres, directors and actors for movies, and music styles, composers and themes for songs. With the advent of the Semantic Web, and its reference implementation Linked Data, a plethora of structured, interlinked metadata is available on the Web. These metadata represent a potential source of information to be exploited by content-based and hybrid filtering approaches. Motivated by the use of Linked Data for recommendation purposes, in this paper we present and evaluate a number of matrix factorization models for cross-domain collaborative filtering that leverage metadata as a bridge between items liked by users in different domains. We show that in case the underlying knowledge graph connects items from different domains and then in situations that benefit from cross-domain information, our models can provide better recommendations to new users while keeping a good trade-off between recommendation accuracy and diversity.
2019
Addressing the user cold start with cross-domain collaborative filtering: exploiting item metadata in matrix factorization / Fernández-Tobías, Ignacio; Cantador, Iván; Tomeo, Paolo; Anelli, Vito Walter; Di Noia, Tommaso. - In: USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION. - ISSN 0924-1868. - STAMPA. - 29:2(2019), pp. 443-486. [10.1007/s11257-018-9217-6]
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