Multi-criteria rating conversion without relation loss for recommender systems

作     者：Sitkrongwong, Padipat Maneeroj, Saranya Takasu, Atsuhiro 

作者机构：Department of Informatics School of Multidisciplinary Sciences The Graduate University for Advanced Studies SOKENDAI Tokyo Japan Advanced Virtual and Intelligent Computing Center Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty of Science Chulalongkorn University Bangkok Thailand National Institute of Informatics Tokyo Japan 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Computers and Applications》 (Int J Comput Appl)

年 卷 期：2022年第44卷第2期

页      面：130-138页

核心收录：

学科分类：1205[管理学-图书情报与档案管理] 081203[工学-计算机应用技术] 08[工学] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0714[理学-统计学（可授理学、经济学学位）] 0701[理学-数学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：Recommender systems 

摘      要：Traditional recommender systems let users provide a single rating indicating their overall preferences toward items. Beside overall rating, multi-criteria recommender systems let users rate on multiple aspects of items with multi-criteria ratings. Most methods in recommender systems are based on collaborative filtering, which makes recommendations by exploiting ratings from neighbor users. However, most of them ignore the fact that rating behaviors of users vary due to their personal preference biases. Thus, exploiting ratings from neighbors directly might result in a poor recommendation. To solve this, the rating conversion techniques have been applied in some single criterion recommendations. For multi-criteria ratings, converting each criterion rating independently might result in loss of relation among criteria ratings. We propose a novel method that simultaneously converts all criteria ratings between users to maintain their implicit relations. The multi-criteria ratings are first normalized by variances of users and principle component analysis is applied to extract user preference patterns. Such patterns are then used for multi-criteria rating conversion. The experiment results show that our method outperforms both current single and multi-criteria rating conversion techniques with RMSEs of 1.1082 and 3.5574 on TripAdvisor and Yahoo datasets respectively, while maintaining considerably high level of prediction coverages. © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.