Exploiting Synergy Between Ontologies and Recommender Systems
Exploiting Synergy Between Ontologies and Recommender Systems
Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender systems do, however, suffer from cold-start problems where no initial information is available early on upon which to base recommendations. Semantic knowledge structures, such as ontologies, can provide valuable domain knowledge and user information. However, acquiring such knowledge and keeping it up to date is not a trivial task and user interests are particularly difficult to acquire and maintain. This paper investigates the synergy between a web-based research paper recommender system and an ontology containing information automatically extracted from departmental databases available on the web. The ontology is used to address the recommender systems cold-start problem. The recommender system addresses the ontology's interest-acquisition problem. An empirical evaluation of this approach is conducted and the performance of the integrated systems measured.
Middleton, Stuart
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Alani, Harith
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Shadbolt, Nigel R.
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Roure, David C. De
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May 2002
Middleton, Stuart
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Alani, Harith
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Shadbolt, Nigel R.
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Roure, David C. De
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Middleton, Stuart, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel R. and Roure, David C. De
(2002)
Exploiting Synergy Between Ontologies and Recommender Systems.
Semantic Web Workshop 2002 At the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference Hawaii, USA.
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Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender systems do, however, suffer from cold-start problems where no initial information is available early on upon which to base recommendations. Semantic knowledge structures, such as ontologies, can provide valuable domain knowledge and user information. However, acquiring such knowledge and keeping it up to date is not a trivial task and user interests are particularly difficult to acquire and maintain. This paper investigates the synergy between a web-based research paper recommender system and an ontology containing information automatically extracted from departmental databases available on the web. The ontology is used to address the recommender systems cold-start problem. The recommender system addresses the ontology's interest-acquisition problem. An empirical evaluation of this approach is conducted and the performance of the integrated systems measured.
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Published date: May 2002
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Semantic Web Workshop 2002 At the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference Hawaii, USA Organisation: ACM Address: Hawaii, USA
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Semantic Web Workshop 2002 At the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference Hawaii, USA, 2002-05-01
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Web & Internet Science, Electronics & Computer Science, IT Innovation
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Local EPrints ID: 256487
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/256487
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Date deposited: 15 Apr 2002
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:08
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Harith Alani
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Nigel R. Shadbolt
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David C. De Roure
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