Building user profiles to improve user experience in recommender systems

  • Authors:
  • Anisio Lacerda;Nivio Ziviani

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Recommender systems are quickly becoming ubiquitous in many Web applications, including e-commerce, social media channels, content providers, among others. These systems act as an enabling mechanism designed to overcome the information overload problem by improving browsing and consumption experience. Crucial to the performance of a recommender system is the accuracy of the user profiles used to represent the interests of the users. In this proposal, we analyze three different aspects of user profiling: (i) selecting the most informative events from the interaction between users and the system, (ii) combining different recommendation algorithms to (iii) including trust-aware information in user profiles to improve the accuracy of recommender systems.