{"title":"Session details: Technical session: methods, algorithms, and theory I","authors":"R. Burke","doi":"10.1145/3249960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3249960","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128611127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Location-aware music recommendation using auto-tagging and hybrid matching","authors":"Marius Kaminskas, F. Ricci, M. Schedl","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507180","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a novel approach to context-aware music recommendation - recommending music suited for places of interest (POIs). The suggested hybrid approach combines two techniques -- one based on representing both POIs and music with tags, and the other based on the knowledge of the semantic relations between the two types of items. We show that our approach can be scaled up using a novel music auto-tagging technique and we compare it in a live user study to: two non-hybrid solutions, either based on tags or on semantic relations; and to a context-free but personalized recommendation approach. In the considered scenario, i.e., a situation defined by a context (the POI), we show that personalization (via music preference) is not sufficient and it is important to implement effective adaptation techniques to the user's context. In fact, we show that the users are more satisfied with the recommendations generated by combining the tag-based and knowledge-based context adaptation techniques, which exploit orthogonal types of relations between places and music tracks.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"458 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129488705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What to read next?: making personalized book recommendations for K-12 users","authors":"M. S. Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507181","url":null,"abstract":"Finding books that children/teenagers are interested in these days is a non-trivial task due to the diversity of topics covered in huge volumes of books with varied readability levels. Even though K-12 readers can turn to book recommenders to look for books, the recommended books may not satisfy their personal needs, since they could be beyond/below their readability levels or fail to match their topics of interest. To address these problems, we introduce BReK12, a book recommender that makes personalized suggestions tailored to each K-12 user U based on books available on a social book-marking site that (i) are similar in content to the ones that are known to be of interest to U, (ii) have been bookmarked by users with reading patterns similar to U's, and (iii) can be comprehended by U. BReK12 is an asset to its users, since it suggests books that are appealing to its users and at grade levels that they can cope with, which can increase their reading selection choices and motivate them to read. We have also developed ReLAT, the readability analysis tool employed by BReK12 to determine the grade level of books. ReLAT is novel, compared with existing readability formulas, since it can predict the grade level of a book even if an excerpt of the book is not available. We have conducted empirical studies which have verified the accuracy of ReLAT in predicting the grade level of a book and the effectiveness of BReK12 over existing baseline recommendation systems.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129801403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local context modeling with semantic pre-filtering","authors":"Victor Codina, F. Ricci, Luigi Ceccaroni","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507218","url":null,"abstract":"Context-Aware Recommender Systems locally adapt to a specific contextual situation the rating prediction computed by a traditional context-free recommender. In this paper we present a novel semantic pre-filtering approach that can be tuned to the optimal level of contextualization by aggregating contextual situations that are similar to the target one. The similarities of contextual situations are derived from the available contextually tagged users' ratings according to how similarly the contextual conditions influence the user's rating behavior. We present an extensive evaluation of the performance of our pre-filtering approach on several data sets, showing that it outperforms state-of-the-art context-aware Matrix Factorization approaches.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124826748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clustering-based factorized collaborative filtering","authors":"Nima Mirbakhsh, C. Ling","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507233","url":null,"abstract":"Factorized collaborative models show a promising accuracy and scalability in recommendation systems. They employ the latent collaborative information of users and items to achieve higher accuracy of recommendation. In this paper, we propose a new approach to improve the accuracy of two well-known, highly scalable factorized models: SVD++ and Asymmetric-SVD++. These are cutting-edge factorized models that have played a key role in the Netflix prize winner's solution. We first employ collaborative information to categorize the users and items. We then discover the shared interests between these categories. Including this new information, we extend these cutting-edge models regarding two main goals: 1) to improve their recommendation accuracies; 2) to keep the extended models still scalable. Finally, we evaluate our proposed models on two recommendation datasets: MovieLens100k, and Netflix. Our experiment shows that adding the shared interests among categories into these models improves their accuracy while maintaining scalability.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124424745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trading-off among accuracy, similarity, diversity, and long-tail: a graph-based recommendation approach","authors":"Lei Shi","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507165","url":null,"abstract":"Improving recommendation accuracy is the mostly focused target of recommendation systems, while it has been increasingly recognized that accuracy is not enough as the only quality criterion. More concepts have been proposed recently to augment the evaluation dimensions, such as similarity, diversity, long-tail, etc. Simultaneously considering multiple criteria leads to a multi-task recommendation. In this paper, a graph-based recommendation approach is proposed to effectively and flexibly trade-off among them. Our approach is considered based a 1st order Markovian graph with transition probabilities between user-item pairs. A \"cost flow\" concept is proposed over the graph, so that items with lower costs are stronger recommended to a user. The cost flows are formulated in a recursive dynamic form, whose stability is proved to be guaranteed by appropriately lower-bounding the transition costs. Furthermore, a mixture of transition costs is designed by combining three ingredients related to long-tail, focusing degree and similarity. To evaluate the ingredients, we propose an orthogonal-sparse-orthogonal nonnegative matrix tri-factorization model and an efficient multiplicative algorithm. Empirical experiments on real-world data show promising results of our approach, which could be regarded as a general framework for other affects if transition costs are designed in various ways.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127660411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring temporal effects for location recommendation on location-based social networks","authors":"Huiji Gao, Jiliang Tang, Xia Hu, Huan Liu","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507182","url":null,"abstract":"Location-based social networks (LBSNs) have attracted an inordinate number of users and greatly enriched the urban experience in recent years. The availability of spatial, temporal and social information in online LBSNs offers an unprecedented opportunity to study various aspects of human behavior, and enable a variety of location-based services such as location recommendation. Previous work studied spatial and social influences on location recommendation in LBSNs. Due to the strong correlations between a user's check-in time and the corresponding check-in location, recommender systems designed for location recommendation inevitably need to consider temporal effects. In this paper, we introduce a novel location recommendation framework, based on the temporal properties of user movement observed from a real-world LBSN dataset. The experimental results exhibit the significance of temporal patterns in explaining user behavior, and demonstrate their power to improve location recommendation performance.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128794412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ReComment: towards critiquing-based recommendation with speech interaction","authors":"Peter Grasch, A. Felfernig, Florian Reinfrank","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507161","url":null,"abstract":"In contrast to search-based approaches, critiquing-based recommender systems provide a navigation-based interface where users are enabled to critique displayed recommendations as a means of preference elicitation. In this paper we present Recomment, our approach to natural language based unit critiquing. We discuss the developed prototype and present the corresponding user interface. In order to show the applicability of our concepts, we present the results of a user study. This study shows that speech interfaces have the potential to improve the perceived ease of use as well as the overall quality of recommendations.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114183148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using geospatial metadata to boost collaborative filtering","authors":"Alexander Ostrikov, L. Rokach, Bracha Shapira","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507201","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a method for boosting collaborative filtering by integrating spatial information about geo-referenced items (e.g., photos). In particular, we developed a method to estimate missing ratings by propagating an item's neighbor's ratings based on the similarity of geospatial information. An empirical evaluation shows that geospatial information significantly improves recommendation results, and its contribution grows with the ratings data's level of sparseness. We illustrate the usefulness of the method for a photo recommendation task using data obtained from two popular photo-sharing websites: Flickr and Panoramio. A comparison with state-of-the-art methods indicates the superiority of the proposed method, implying that geospatial information should be considered, when available.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124497310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Konstantinos Babas, G. Chalkiadakis, E. Tripolitakis
{"title":"You are what you consume: a bayesian method for personalized recommendations","authors":"Konstantinos Babas, G. Chalkiadakis, E. Tripolitakis","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507158","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a novel Bayesian approach for personalized recommendations. In our approach, we model both user preferences and items under recommendation as multivariate Gaussian distributions; and make use of Normal-Inverse Wishart priors to model the recommendation agent beliefs about user types. We employ a lightweight agent-user interaction process, during which the user is presented with and asked to rate a small number of items. We then interpret these ratings in an innovative way, using them to guide a Bayesian updating process that helps us both capture a user's current mood, and maintain her overall user type. We produced several variants of our approach, and applied them in the movie recommendations domain, evaluating them on data from the MovieLens dataset. Our algorithms are shown to be competitive against a state-of-the-art method, which nevertheless requires a minimum set of ratings from various users to provide recommendations---unlike our entirely personalized approach.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128374739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}