A Serendipity-Oriented Greedy Algorithm for Recommendations
Kotkov, D., Veijalainen, J., & Wang, S. (2017). A Serendipity-Oriented Greedy Algorithm for Recommendations. In T. A. Majchrzak, P. Traverso, K.-H. Krempels, & V. Monfort (Eds.), WEBIST 2017 : Proceedings of the 13rd International conference on web information systems and technologies. Volume 1 (pp. 32-40). SCITEPRESS Science And Technology Publications. https://doi.org/10.5220/0006232800320040
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Most recommender systems suggest items to a user that are popular among all users and similar to items the user usually consumes. As a result, a user receives recommendations that she/he is already familiar with or would find anyway, leading to low satisfaction. To overcome this problem, a recommender system should suggest novel, relevant and unexpected, i.e. serendipitous items. In this paper, we propose a serendipity-oriented algorithm, which improves serendipity through feature diversification and helps overcome the overspecialization problem. To evaluate our algorithm and compare it with others, we employ a serendipity metric that captures each component of serendipity, unlike the most common metric.
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