Sentiment analysis of user comments for one-class collaborative filtering over ted talks

  • Authors:
  • Nikolaos Pappas;Andrei Popescu-Belis

  • Affiliations:
  • Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland;Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

User-generated texts such as reviews, comments or discussions are valuable indicators of users' preferences. Unlike previous works which focus on labeled data from user-contributed reviews, we focus here on user comments which are not accompanied by explicit rating labels. We investigate their utility for a one-class collaborative filtering task such as bookmarking, where only the user actions are given as ground truth. We propose a sentiment-aware nearest neighbor model (SANN) for multimedia recommendations over TED talks, which makes use of user comments. The model outperforms significantly, by more than 25% on unseen data, several competitive baselines.