Recommender Systems for Social Tagging Systems

Recommender Systems for Social Tagging Systems
Author: Leandro Balby Marinho
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2012-02-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461418941

Social Tagging Systems are web applications in which users upload resources (e.g., bookmarks, videos, photos, etc.) and annotate it with a list of freely chosen keywords called tags. This is a grassroots approach to organize a site and help users to find the resources they are interested in. Social tagging systems are open and inherently social; features that have been proven to encourage participation. However, with the large popularity of these systems and the increasing amount of user-contributed content, information overload rapidly becomes an issue. Recommender Systems are well known applications for increasing the level of relevant content over the “noise” that continuously grows as more and more content becomes available online. In social tagging systems, however, we face new challenges. While in classic recommender systems the mode of recommendation is basically the resource, in social tagging systems there are three possible modes of recommendation: users, resources, or tags. Therefore suitable methods that properly exploit the different dimensions of social tagging systems data are needed. In this book, we survey the most recent and state-of-the-art work about a whole new generation of recommender systems built to serve social tagging systems. The book is divided into self-contained chapters covering the background material on social tagging systems and recommender systems to the more advanced techniques like the ones based on tensor factorization and graph-based models.

Recommender Systems and the Social Web

Recommender Systems and the Social Web
Author: Fatih Gedikli
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2013-03-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3658019484

​There is an increasing demand for recommender systems due to the information overload users are facing on the Web. The goal of a recommender system is to provide personalized recommendations of products or services to users. With the advent of the Social Web, user-generated content has enriched the social dimension of the Web. As user-provided content data also tells us something about the user, one can learn the user’s individual preferences from the Social Web. This opens up completely new opportunities and challenges for recommender systems research. Fatih Gedikli deals with the question of how user-provided tagging data can be used to build better recommender systems. A tag recommender algorithm is proposed which recommends tags for users to annotate their favorite online resources. The author also proposes algorithms which exploit the user-provided tagging data and produce more accurate recommendations. On the basis of this idea, he shows how tags can be used to explain to the user the automatically generated recommendations in a clear and intuitively understandable form. With his book, Fatih Gedikli gives us an outlook on the next generation of recommendation systems in the Social Web sphere.

Recommender Systems

Recommender Systems
Author: Charu C. Aggarwal
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2016-03-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319296590

This book comprehensively covers the topic of recommender systems, which provide personalized recommendations of products or services to users based on their previous searches or purchases. Recommender system methods have been adapted to diverse applications including query log mining, social networking, news recommendations, and computational advertising. This book synthesizes both fundamental and advanced topics of a research area that has now reached maturity. The chapters of this book are organized into three categories: Algorithms and evaluation: These chapters discuss the fundamental algorithms in recommender systems, including collaborative filtering methods, content-based methods, knowledge-based methods, ensemble-based methods, and evaluation. Recommendations in specific domains and contexts: the context of a recommendation can be viewed as important side information that affects the recommendation goals. Different types of context such as temporal data, spatial data, social data, tagging data, and trustworthiness are explored. Advanced topics and applications: Various robustness aspects of recommender systems, such as shilling systems, attack models, and their defenses are discussed. In addition, recent topics, such as learning to rank, multi-armed bandits, group systems, multi-criteria systems, and active learning systems, are introduced together with applications. Although this book primarily serves as a textbook, it will also appeal to industrial practitioners and researchers due to its focus on applications and references. Numerous examples and exercises have been provided, and a solution manual is available for instructors.

Joint Item-Tag Recommendation Framework for Collaborative Filtering in Social Tagging Systems

Joint Item-Tag Recommendation Framework for Collaborative Filtering in Social Tagging Systems
Author: Jing Peng
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN:

Tapping into the wisdom of the crowd, social tagging is becoming an increasingly important mechanism for organizing and discovering information on the Web. Effective tag-based recommendation of information items is one of the key technologies contributing to the success of this social information discovery mechanism. A precise understanding of the information structure of social tagging systems lies at the core of an effective tag-based item recommendation method. While most existing methods either implicitly or explicitly assume a simple tripartite graph structure, in this paper, we propose a comprehensive data model to capture all types of co-occurrence information in the social tagging context. Based on this data model, we further propose a unified user profiling scheme to make full use of all available information. Finally, supported by this user profile, we propose a framework for collaborative filtering in social tagging systems. In this framework, we first generate joint item-tag recommendations, with tags indicating topical interests of users in target items. These joint recommendations are then refined by the wisdom from the crowd and projected to the item (or tag) space for final item (or tag) recommendations. Empirical evaluation using real-world data demonstrates the utility of our proposed approach.

Recommendation and Search in Social Networks

Recommendation and Search in Social Networks
Author: Özgür Ulusoy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319143794

This edited volume offers a clear in-depth overview of research covering a variety of issues in social search and recommendation systems. Within the broader context of social network analysis it focuses on important and up-coming topics such as real-time event data collection, frequent-sharing pattern mining, improvement of computer-mediated communication, social tagging information, search system personalization, new detection mechanisms for the identification of online user groups, and many more. The twelve contributed chapters are extended versions of conference papers as well as completely new invited chapters in the field of social search and recommendation systems. This first-of-its kind survey of current methods will be of interest to researchers from both academia and industry working in the field of social networks.

Social Information Access

Social Information Access
Author: Peter Brusilovsky
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2018-05-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319900927

Social information access is defined as a stream of research that explores methods for organizing the past interactions of users in a community in order to provide future users with better access to information. Social information access covers a wide range of different technologies and strategies that operate on a different scale, which can range from a small closed corpus site to the whole Web. The 16 chapters included in this book provide a broad overview of modern research on social information access. In order to provide a balanced coverage, these chapters are organized by the main types of information access (i.e., social search, social navigation, and recommendation) and main sources of social information.

Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Applications

Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Applications
Author: Christine Preisach
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 714
Release: 2008-04-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 354078246X

Data analysis and machine learning are research areas at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics and statistics. They cover general methods and techniques that can be applied to a vast set of applications such as web and text mining, marketing, medical science, bioinformatics and business intelligence. This volume contains the revised versions of selected papers in the field of data analysis, machine learning and applications presented during the 31st Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (Gesellschaft für Klassifikation - GfKl). The conference was held at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany, in March 2007.

Recommender Systems for Location-based Social Networks

Recommender Systems for Location-based Social Networks
Author: Panagiotis Symeonidis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2014-02-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1493902865

Online social networks collect information from users' social contacts and their daily interactions (co-tagging of photos, co-rating of products etc.) to provide them with recommendations of new products or friends. Lately, technological progressions in mobile devices (i.e. smart phones) enabled the incorporation of geo-location data in the traditional web-based online social networks, bringing the new era of Social and Mobile Web. The goal of this book is to bring together important research in a new family of recommender systems aimed at serving Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs). The chapters introduce a wide variety of recent approaches, from the most basic to the state-of-the-art, for providing recommendations in LBSNs. The book is organized into three parts. Part 1 provides introductory material on recommender systems, online social networks and LBSNs. Part 2 presents a wide variety of recommendation algorithms, ranging from basic to cutting edge, as well as a comparison of the characteristics of these recommender systems. Part 3 provides a step-by-step case study on the technical aspects of deploying and evaluating a real-world LBSN, which provides location, activity and friend recommendations. The material covered in the book is intended for graduate students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners in the areas of web data mining, information retrieval, and machine learning.

Recommender Systems Handbook

Recommender Systems Handbook
Author: Francesco Ricci
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1008
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 148997637X

This second edition of a well-received text, with 20 new chapters, presents a coherent and unified repository of recommender systems’ major concepts, theories, methodologies, trends, and challenges. A variety of real-world applications and detailed case studies are included. In addition to wholesale revision of the existing chapters, this edition includes new topics including: decision making and recommender systems, reciprocal recommender systems, recommender systems in social networks, mobile recommender systems, explanations for recommender systems, music recommender systems, cross-domain recommendations, privacy in recommender systems, and semantic-based recommender systems. This multi-disciplinary handbook involves world-wide experts from diverse fields such as artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, information retrieval, data mining, mathematics, statistics, adaptive user interfaces, decision support systems, psychology, marketing, and consumer behavior. Theoreticians and practitioners from these fields will find this reference to be an invaluable source of ideas, methods and techniques for developing more efficient, cost-effective and accurate recommender systems.