Graph-based recommendations: Make the most out of social data

Amit Tiroshi, Shlomo Berkovsky, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, David Vallet, Tsvi Kuflik

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Abstract

Recommender systems use nowadays more and more data about users and items as part of the recommendation process. The availability of auxiliary data, going beyond the mere user/item data, has the potential to improve recommendations. In this work we examine the contribution of two types of social auxiliary data – namely, tags and friendship links – to the accuracy of a graph-based recommender. We measure the impact of the availability of auxiliary data on the recommendations using features extracted from both the auxiliary and the original data. The evaluation shows that the social auxiliary data improves the accuracy of the recommendations, and that the greatest improvement is achieved when graph features mirroring the nature of the auxiliary data are extracted by the recommender.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationUser Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization - 22nd International Conference, UMAP 2014, Proceedings
EditorsVania Dimitrova, Tsvi Kuflik, David Chin, Francesco Ricci, Peter Dolog, Geert-Jan Houben
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages447-458
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9783319087856
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, UMAP 2014 - Aalborg, Netherlands
Duration: 7 Jul 201411 Jul 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8538

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, UMAP 2014
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAalborg
Period7/07/1411/07/14

Keywords

  • Feature extraction
  • Graph-based recommendations
  • Music recommendations
  • Social data

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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