Extraction of User Preference for Hybrid Collaborative Filtering

With the development of e-commerce and information access, recommender systems have become a popular technique to prune large information spaces so that users are directed toward those items that best meet their needs and preferences. In this paper, clustering technique is applied in the collaborative recommender framework to consider semantic contents available from the user profiles. We also suggest methods to construct user profiles from rating information and attributes of items to accommodate user preferences. Further, we show that the correct application of the semantic content information obtained from user profiles does enhance the effectiveness of collaborative recommendation.