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Most recommendation systems require some form of user feedback such as ratings in order to make personalized propositions of items. Typically ratings are unidimensional in the sense of consisting of a scalar value that represents the user’s appreciation for the rated item. Multi-criteria ratings allow users to express more differentiated opinions by allowing separate ratings for different aspects or dimensions of an item. Recent approaches of multi-criteria recommender systems are able to exploit this multifaceted user feedback and make personalized propositions that are more accurate than recommendations based on unidimensional rating data. However, most proposed multi-criteria recommendation algorithms simply exploit the fact that a richer feature space allows building more accurate predictive models without considering the semantics and available domain expertise. This paper contributes on the latter aspects by analyzing multi-criteria ratings from the major etourism platform, TripAdvisor, and structuring raters’ overall satisfaction with the help of a Penalty-Reward Contrast analysis. We identify that several a-priori user segments significantly differ in the way overall satisfaction can be explained by multi-criteria rating dimensions. This finding has implications for practical algorithm development that needs to consider different user segments.
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Fuchs, M., Zanker, M. (2012). Multi-criteria Ratings for Recommender Systems: An Empirical Analysis in the Tourism Domain. In: Huemer, C., Lops, P. (eds) E-Commerce and Web Technologies. EC-Web 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 123. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32273-0_9
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