Combining usage and content in an online music recommendation system for music in the long-tail

  • Authors:
  • Marcos Aurélio Domingues;Fabien Gouyon;Alípio Mário Jorge;José Paulo Leal;João Vinagre;Luís Lemos;Mohamed Sordo

  • Affiliations:
  • INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal;INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal;FCUP, University of Porto & INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal;CRACS, INESC TEC, FCUP & University of Porto, Porto, Portugal;FCUP, University of Porto & INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal;University of Porto & INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal;Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a hybrid music recommender system, which combines usage and content data. We describe an online evaluation experiment performed in real time on a commercial music web site, specialised in content from the very long tail of music content. We compare it against two stand-alone recommenders, the first system based on usage and the second one based on content data. The results show that the proposed hybrid recommender shows advantages with respect to usage- and content-based systems, namely, higher user absolute acceptance rate, higher user activity rate and higher user loyalty.