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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2011.15.4.877

A Recommendation Technique using Weight of User Information  

Yun, So-Young (부경대학교)
Youn, Sung-Dae (부경대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.15, no.4, 2011 , pp. 877-885 More about this Journal
Abstract
A collaborative filtering(CF) is the most widely used technique in recommender system. However, CF has sparsity and scalability problems. These problems reduce the accuracy of recommendation and extensive studies have been made to solve these problems, In this paper, we proposed a method that uses a weight so as to solve these problems. After creating a user-item matrix, the proposed method analyzes information about users who prefer the item only by using data with a rating over 4 for enhancing the accuracy in the recommendation. The proposed method uses information about the genre of the item as well as analyzed user information as a weight during the calculation of similarity, and it calculates prediction by using only data for which the similarity is over a threshold and uses the data as the rating value of unrated data. It is possible simultaneously to reduce sparsity and to improve accuracy by calculating prediction through an analysis of the characteristics of an item. Also, it is possible to conduct a quick classification based on the analyzed information once a new item and a user are registered. The experiment result indicated that the proposed method has been more enhanced the accuracy, compared to item based, genre based methods.
Keywords
Collaborative Filtering; Recommendation Technique; Sparsity; Scalability; Similarity; Weight;
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