NDLI: Experimental evaluation of context-dependent collaborative filtering using item splitting

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Author	Baltrunas, Linas Ricci, Francesco
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Collaborative Filtering (CF) computes recommendations by leveraging a historical data set of users’ ratings for items. CF assumes that the users’ recorded ratings can help in predicting their future ratings. This has been validated extensively, but in some domains the user’s ratings can be influenced by contextual conditions, such as the time, or the goal of the item consumption. This type of contextual information is not exploited by standard CF models. This paper introduces and analyzes a novel technique for context-aware CF called Item Splitting. In this approach items experienced in two alternative contextual conditions are “split” into two items. This means that the ratings of a split item, e.g., a place to visit, are assigned (split) to two new fictitious items representing for instance the place in summer and the same place in winter. This split is performed only if there is statistical evidence that under these two contextual conditions the items ratings are different; for instance, a place may be rated higher in summer than in winter. These two new fictitious items are then used, together with the unaffected items, in the rating prediction algorithm. When the system must predict the rating for that “split” item in a particular contextual condition (e.g., in summer), it will consider the new fictitious item representing the original one in that particular contextual condition, and will predict its rating. We evaluated this approach on real world, and semi-synthetic data sets using matrix factorization, and nearest neighbor CF algorithms. We show that Item Splitting can be beneficial and its performance depends on the method used to determine which items to split. We also show that the benefit of the method is determined by the relevance of the contextual factors that are used to split.
Starting Page	7
Ending Page	34
Page Count	28
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09241868
Journal	User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Volume Number	24
Issue Number	1-2
e-ISSN	15731391
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-02-07
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Recommender Systems Collaborative filtering Context Item splitting User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Multimedia Information Systems Management of Computing and Information Systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Human-Computer Interaction Computer Science Applications

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