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http://dx.doi.org/10.9708/jksci.2020.25.12.203

Similarity Measure based on Utilization of Rating Distributions for Data Sparsity Problem in Collaborative Filtering  

Lee, Soojung (Dept. of Computer Education, Gyeongin National University of Education)
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Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information / v.25, no.12, 2020 , pp. 203-210 More about this Journal
Abstract
Memory-based collaborative filtering is one of the representative types of the recommender system, but it suffers from the inherent problem of data sparsity. Although many works have been devoted to solving this problem, there is still a request for more systematic approaches to the problem. This study exploits distribution of user ratings given to items for computing similarity. All user ratings are utilized in the proposed method, compared to previous ones which use ratings for only common items between users. Moreover, for similarity computation, it takes a global view of ratings for items by reflecting other users' ratings for that item. Performance is evaluated through experiments and compared to that of other relevant methods. The results reveal that the proposed demonstrates superior performance in prediction and rank accuracies. This improvement in prediction accuracy is as high as 2.6 times more than that achieved by the state-of-the-art method over the traditional similarity measures.
Keywords
Collaborative Filtering; Recommender System; Similarity Measure; Data Sparsity;
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