R. Gao, Bibo Hao, Shuotian Bai, Lin Li, Ang Li, T. Zhu
{"title":"Improving user profile with personality traits predicted from social media content","authors":"R. Gao, Bibo Hao, Shuotian Bai, Lin Li, Ang Li, T. Zhu","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507219","url":null,"abstract":"Existing studies indicate that there exists strong correlation between personality and personal preference, thus personality could potentially be used to build more personalized recommender system. Personality traits are mainly measured by psychological questionnaires, and it is hard to obtain personality traits of large amount of users in real-world scenes.In this paper, we propose a new approach to automatically identify personality traits with Social Media contents in Chinese language environments. Social Media content features were extracted from 1766 Sina micro blog users, and the predicting model is trained with machine learning algorithms.The experimental results demonstrate that users' personality traits could be predicted from Social Media contents with acceptable Pearson Correlation, which makes it possible to develop user profiles for recommender system. In future, user profiles with predicted personality traits would be used to enhance the performance of existing personalized recommendation systems.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"1 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":"128888448","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":"Top-N recommendations from implicit feedback leveraging linked open data","authors":"V. Ostuni, T. D. Noia, R. Mirizzi, E. Sciascio","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507172","url":null,"abstract":"The advent of the Linked Open Data (LOD) initiative gave birth to a variety of open knowledge bases freely accessible on the Web. They provide a valuable source of information that can improve conventional recommender systems, if properly exploited. In this paper we present SPrank, a novel hybrid recommendation algorithm able to compute top-N item recommendations from implicit feedback exploiting the information available in the so called Web of Data. We leverage DBpedia, a well-known knowledge base in the LOD compass, to extract semantic path-based features and to eventually compute recommendations using a learning to rank algorithm. Experiments with datasets on two different domains show that the proposed approach outperforms in terms of prediction accuracy several state-of-the-art top-N recommendation algorithms for implicit feedback in situations affected by different degrees of data sparsity.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"24 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":"131072558","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}
M. Degemmis, T. D. Noia, O. Lassila, P. Lops, Thomas Lukasiewicz, G. Semeraro
{"title":"Workshop on recommender systems meet big data & semantic technologies: SeRSy 2013","authors":"M. Degemmis, T. D. Noia, O. Lassila, P. Lops, Thomas Lukasiewicz, G. Semeraro","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2508005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2508005","url":null,"abstract":"The primary goal of the workshop is to showcase cutting edge research on the intersection of Recommender Systems and Semantic Technologies, by taking the best of the two worlds. This combination may provide the RecSys community with important scenarios where the potential of Semantic Technologies can be effectively exploited into systems performing complex tasks, such as recommendation engines processing Big Data.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"105 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":"133292187","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":"Effectiveness of the data generated on different time in latent factor model","authors":"Qianru Zheng, H. Ip","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507202","url":null,"abstract":"User selection data accumulates as time goes by. Although the recent selections are usually assumed to have higher impact on the recommendation accuracy, empirical studies on this problem are limited. For old data, whether they can contribute to the recommendation accuracy is still to be determined. On one hand, changes in short-term user preference over time may limit their effectiveness in prediction, but on the other hand, one cannot rule out their potential in capturing long term user preferences. The result is important for the system owner to determine which data is useful to make the recommendation accurately. While there have been some related studies on the time dependency of data quality using neighbor-based CF methods (e.g., [4]), its effects remain unverified for other CF methods. In this paper, we study the effect of data generated over different time period on recommendation precision using several popular model-based CF algorithms (latent factor models). experiment results show that while more recent data expectedly have larger impacts, the usefulness of older data cannot be ignored as long as there are sufficient old samples. However, the addition of insufficient amount of old data seems to have negative impacts.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"6 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":"132987582","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":"Session details: Technical session: methods, algorithms, and theory II","authors":"Alexandros Karatzoglou","doi":"10.1145/3249965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3249965","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"35 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":"124888548","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":"Session details: Technical session: social media and recommender systems","authors":"Jie Tang","doi":"10.1145/3249961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3249961","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"21 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":"125153315","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}
Li Chen, M. Degemmis, A. Felfernig, P. Lops, F. Ricci, G. Semeraro, M. Willemsen
{"title":"Workshop on human decision making in recommender systems: decisions@RecSys'13","authors":"Li Chen, M. Degemmis, A. Felfernig, P. Lops, F. Ricci, G. Semeraro, M. Willemsen","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2508002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2508002","url":null,"abstract":"A primary function of recommender systems is to help their users to make better choices and decisions. The overall goal of the workshop is to analyse and discuss novel techniques and approaches for supporting effective and efficient human decision making in different types of recommendation scenarios. The submitted papers discuss a wide range of topics from core algorithmic issues to the management of the human computer interaction.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"3 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":"127251789","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":"Query-driven context aware recommendation","authors":"N. Hariri, B. Mobasher, R. Burke","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507187","url":null,"abstract":"Context aware recommender systems go beyond the traditional personalized recommendation models by incorporating a form of situational awareness. They provide recommendations that not only correspond to a user's preference profile, but that are also tailored to a given situation or context. We consider the setting in which contextual information is represented as a subset of an item feature space describing short-term interests or needs of a user in a given situation. This contextual information can be provided by the user in the form of an explicit query, or derived implicitly. We propose a unified probabilistic model that integrates user profiles, item representations, and contextual information. The resulting recommendation framework computes the conditional probability of each item given the user profile and the additional context. These probabilities are used as recommendation scores for ranking items. Our model is an extension of the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model that provides the capability for joint modeling of users, items, and the meta-data associated with contexts. Each user profile is modeled as a mixture of the latent topics. The discovered latent topics enable our system to handle missing data in item features. We demonstrate the application of our framework for article and music recommendation. In the latter case, the set of popular tags from social tagging Web sites are used for context descriptions. Our evaluation results show that considering context can help improve the quality of recommendations.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"13 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":"121537033","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":"Recommendation in social networks","authors":"M. Ester","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2508062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2508062","url":null,"abstract":"1. TUTORIAL DESCRIPTION With the emergence of online social networks, academia and industry have explored ways to exploit the information in social networks to improve the quality of recommendations and to support new recommendation tasks. The underlying motivation is to capture the effects that govern the evolution of social networks, i.e. social influence, selection, correlational influence and transitivity, to enhance the typically very sparse rating matrix. Recommender systems exploiting a social network promise to outperform traditional recommenders in particular for cold-start (new) users who have not yet provided enough information about their preferences. After introducing the motivation and some of the practical applications, we discuss social networks and the main factors affecting their evolution. We then review state-ofthe-art methods for item recommendation in social networks, both memory-based approaches and model-based approaches, in particular matrix factorization. We discuss friend recommendation, an important recommendation task that is unique to the context of social networks. We conclude the tutorial with a discussion of future research directions such as privacypreserving recommendations and social recommendation in distributed/peer-to-peer networks.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"22 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":"127508376","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":"Session details: Demonstrations","authors":"Rong Zheng","doi":"10.1145/3249969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3249969","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"22 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":"114441079","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}