Intent-oriented diversity in recommender systems

  • Authors:
  • Saul Vargas;Pablo Castells;David Vallet

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Diversity as a relevant dimension of retrieval quality is receiving increasing attention in the Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems (RS) fields. The problem has nonetheless been approached under different views and formulations in IR and RS respectively, giving rise to different models, methodologies, and metrics, with little convergence between both fields. In this poster we explore the adaptation of diversity metrics, techniques, and principles from ad-hoc IR to the recommendation task, by introducing the notion of user profile aspect as an analogue of query intent. As a particular approach, user aspects are automatically extracted from latent item features. Empirical results support the proposed approach and provide further insights.