A Hybrid Content-Collaborative Recommender System Integrated into an Electronic Performance Support System

Authors:
Leo Iaquinta;Anna Lisa Gentile;Pasquale Lops;Marco de Gemmis;Giovanni Semeraro
Affiliations:
University of Bari - Italy;University of Bari - Italy;University of Bari - Italy;University of Bari - Italy;University of Bari - Italy
Venue:
HIS '07 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems
Year:
2007

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Abstract

An Electronic Performance Support System (EPSS) introduces challenges on contextualized and personalized information delivery. Recommender systems aim at delivering and suggesting relevant information according to users preferences, thus EPSSs could take advantage of the recommendation algorithms that have the effect of guiding users in a large space of possible options. The JUMP project1 aims at integrating an EPSS with a hybrid recommender system. Collaborative and content-based filtering are the recommendation techniques most widely adopted to date. The main contribution of this paper is a contentcollaborative hybrid recommender which computes similarities between users relying on their contentbased profiles, in which user preferences are stored, instead of comparing their rating styles. A distinctive feature of our system is that a statistical model of the user interests is obtained by machine learning techniques integrated with linguistic knowledge contained in WordNet. This model, named "semantic user profile", is exploited by the hybrid recommender in the neighborhood formation process.