Université de Fribourg

Personalized recommendation via integrated diffusion on user–item–tag tripartite graphs

Zhang, Zi-Ke ; Zhou, Tao ; Zhang, Yi-Cheng

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2010, vol. 389, no. 1, p. 179-186

Personalized recommender systems are confronting great challenges of accuracy, diversification and novelty, especially when the data set is sparse and lacks accessorial information, such as user profiles, item attributes and explicit ratings. Collaborative tags contain rich information about personalized preferences and item contents, and are therefore potential to help in providing better...