Improving location recommendations with temporal pattern extraction

  • Authors:
  • Leandro Balby Marinho;Iury Nunes;Thomas Sandholm;Caio Nóbrega;Jordão Araújo;Carlos Eduardo Santos Pires

  • Affiliations:
  • Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil;Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil;HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA;Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil;Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil;Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian symposium on Multimedia and the web
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

A key challenge in mobile social media applications is how to present personalized content that is both geographically and temporally relevant. In this paper, we propose a new and generic temporal weighting function for improving location recommendations. First, we identify areas of interest to recommend by clustering geographic activity based on a trace of geotagged photos. Next, the clusters are temporally weighted using TF-IDF, in order to capture seasonality, and a decay scoring function to capture preference drift. Finally, these weights are combined with the cluster scores based on geographic relevance. We evaluate our recommender on a large dataset collected from Panoramio consisting of the top-100 most populated cities in the world and show that incorporating the proposed temporal weighting function improves recommendation quality.