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On the influence of user characteristics on music recommendation

On the influence of user characteristics on music recommendation
On the influence of user characteristics on music recommendation
We investigate a range of music recommendation algorithm combinations, score aggregation functions, normalization techniques, and late fusion techniques on approximately 200 million listening events collected through Last.fm. The overall goal is to identify superior combinations for the task of artist recommendation. Hypothesizing that user characteristics influence performance on these algorithmic combinations, we consider specific user groups determined by age, gender, country, and preferred genre. Overall, we find that the performance of music recommendation algorithms highly depends on user characteristics.
339-345
Springer
Schedl, Markus
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Hauger, David
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Farrahi, Katayoun
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Tkalcic, Marko
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Hanbury, A.
Kazai, G.
Rauber, A.
Fuhr, N.
Schedl, Markus
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Hauger, David
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Farrahi, Katayoun
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Hanbury, A.
Kazai, G.
Rauber, A.
Fuhr, N.

Schedl, Markus, Hauger, David, Farrahi, Katayoun and Tkalcic, Marko (2015) On the influence of user characteristics on music recommendation. Hanbury, A., Kazai, G., Rauber, A. and Fuhr, N. (eds.) In European Conference on Information Retrieval. Springer. pp. 339-345 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16354-3_37).

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Abstract

We investigate a range of music recommendation algorithm combinations, score aggregation functions, normalization techniques, and late fusion techniques on approximately 200 million listening events collected through Last.fm. The overall goal is to identify superior combinations for the task of artist recommendation. Hypothesizing that user characteristics influence performance on these algorithmic combinations, we consider specific user groups determined by age, gender, country, and preferred genre. Overall, we find that the performance of music recommendation algorithms highly depends on user characteristics.

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Published date: March 2015

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Local EPrints ID: 420576
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/420576
PURE UUID: 9b2a9734-c06b-4d06-8e88-3ebf21890b3b
ORCID for Katayoun Farrahi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6775-127X

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Date deposited: 10 May 2018 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:31

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Author: Markus Schedl
Author: David Hauger
Author: Katayoun Farrahi ORCID iD
Author: Marko Tkalcic
Editor: A. Hanbury
Editor: G. Kazai
Editor: A. Rauber
Editor: N. Fuhr

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