A Hybrid Approach for Group Profiling in Recommender Systems

CHRISTENSEN, INGRID; SILVIA SCHIAFFINO

JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE

GRAZ UNIV TECHNOLGOY

Lugar: Graz; Año: 2014 vol. 20 p. 507 - 533

0948-695X

Recommendation is a signicant paradigm for information exploring, which focuses on the recovery of items of potential interest to users. Some activities tend to be social rather than individual, which puts forward the need to oer recommendations to groups of users. Group recommender systems present a whole set of new challenges within the eld of recommender systems. In this paper, we present a hybrid approach based on group profiling for homogeneous and non-homogenous groups containing a few distant individual profiles among their members. This approach combines three familiar individual recommendation approaches: collaborative ltering, content-based ltering and demographic information. This hybrid approach allows the detection of those implicit similarities in the user rating profile, so as to include members with divergent profiles. We also describe the promising results obtained when evaluating the approach proposed in the movie and music domain.