Skip to main content

Linguistic Features and Learning to Rank Methods for Shopping Advice

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making (IUKM 2016)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 9978))

Abstract

We present a recommendation system (RS) which helps users in buying products based on summarizing all the customer reviews of product attributes. Our recommendation system extracts users’ opinions for products through a decision tree. Each node of the tree is a question to the users. From each node, our RS gives a ranked list of products which is matches the opinions of users. We explain (a) a learning tree structure, for instance, at each node which questions can be asked; and (b) producing a suitably ranked list at each node. Firstly, we use a top-down strategy to build a decision tree in order to select the best user attributes corresponding to a question which is asked at each node. Secondly, we use a learning-to-rank method to learn a ranked list of products for each node of the tree. In experimentation, we use amazon datasets for computer products. We evaluate our RS by using mean reciprocal rank (MRR). Experimental results show that RankBoost achieves better quality than RankSVM.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    http://people.cs.umass.edu/vdang/ranklib.html.

  2. 2.

    http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/tj/svmlight/svm rank.html.

References

  1. Balakrishnan, S., Chopra, S.: Collaborative ranking. In: Proceedings of the Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, pp. 143–152. ACM (2012)

    Google Scholar 

  2. Das, M., De Francisci Morales, G., Gionis, A., Weber, I.: Learning to question: leveraging user preferences for shopping advice. In: Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 203–211. ACM (2013)

    Google Scholar 

  3. Freund, Y., Iyer, R., Schapire, R.E., Singer, Y.: An efficient boosting algorithm for combining preferences. J. Mach. Learn. Res. 4, 933–969 (2003)

    MathSciNet  MATH  Google Scholar 

  4. Hu, M., Liu, B.: Mining and summarizing customer reviews. In: Proceedings of the Tenth ACM

    Google Scholar 

  5. Hu, M., Liu, B.: Mining opinion features in customer reviews. In: Proceedings of the 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 755–760

    Google Scholar 

  6. Joachims, T.: Training linear SVMS in linear time. In: Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 217–226. ACM (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  7. Manning, C.D., Surdeanu, M., Bauer, J., Finkel, J.R., Bethard, S., McClosky, D.: The stanford corenlp natural language processing toolkit. In: ACL (System Demonstrations), pp. 55–60 (2014)

    Google Scholar 

  8. Resnick, P., Iacovou, N., Suchak, M., Bergstrom, P., Riedl, J.: Grouplens: an open architecture for collaborative filtering of netnews. In: Proceedings of the 1994 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, pp. 175–186. ACM (1994)

    Google Scholar 

  9. Socher, R., Perelygin, A., Wu, J.Y., Chuang, J., Manning, C.D., Ng, A.Y., Potts, C.: Recursive deep models for semantic compositionality over a sentiment treebank. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), vol. 1631, p. 1642. Citeseer (2013)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Xuan-Huy Nguyen .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2016 Springer International Publishing AG

About this paper

Cite this paper

Nguyen, XH., Nguyen, LM. (2016). Linguistic Features and Learning to Rank Methods for Shopping Advice. In: Huynh, VN., Inuiguchi, M., Le, B., Le, B., Denoeux, T. (eds) Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making. IUKM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9978. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49046-5_23

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49046-5_23

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-49045-8

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-49046-5

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics