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Tag recommender systems are often used in social tagging systems, a popular family of Web 2.0 applications, to assist users in the tagging process. But in cold-start situations i.e., when new users or resources enter the system, state-of-the-art tag recommender systems perform poorly and are not always able to generate recommendations. Many user profiles contain untagged resources, which could provide valuable information especially for cold-start scenarios where tagged data is scarce. The existing methods do not explore this additional information source. In this paper we propose to use a purely graph-based semi-supervised relational approach that uses untagged posts for addressing the cold-start problem. We conduct experiments on two real-life datasets and show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art in many cases.
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Preisach, C., Balby Marinho, L., Schmidt-Thieme, L. (2010). Semi-supervised Tag Recommendation - Using Untagged Resources to Mitigate Cold-Start Problems. In: Zaki, M.J., Yu, J.X., Ravindran, B., Pudi, V. (eds) Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. PAKDD 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13657-3_38
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