An agent framework for recommendation

  • Authors:
  • Zhonghang Xia;Guangming Xing;Xuejun Jiang

  • Affiliations:
  • Western Kentucky University, Department of Computer Science, Bowling Green, KY;Western Kentucky University, Department of Computer Science, Bowling Green, KY;Shandong Institute of Economic, Department of Statistics, Jinan, Shandong, China

  • Venue:
  • TELE-INFO'07 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS Int. Conference on Telecommunications and Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Internet users are becoming overwhelmed by rapidly growing Web information. Two commonly used technologies to solve the problem are information retrieval and collaborative filtering. Existing information retrieval methods have been mainly developed for handling flat documents and current collaborative filtering systems still suffer from the sparsity problem in which most users may rate very few items comparing with the large number of available items in the systems. Moreover, current methods usually cope with these issues separately. In this paper, we develop an intelligent agent framework that integrates document collection, information retrieval and recommendation. In order to improve the query performance, similar XML documents are grouped together based on structural information. Different with conventional methods, we use tree-edit distance to measure the similarity/dissimilarity among XML documents. In collaborative filtering, we convert the recommendation problem into a classification problem and solve it by multi-class support vector machines. Experimental studies show that the accurate rates of our recommendation method outperform existing ones.