Abstract
Document recommendation in information retrieval is a well known problem. Recommending a profile in order to personalize document search is a less common approach. In this paper a specific solution to profile recommendation is proposed, by use of knowledge integration methods. A hierarchical user profile is defined to represent the user. For each new user joining an information retrieval system, a prepared non-empty profile is assigned based on other similar users. To create such a profile, knowledge integration methods are used. A set of postulates are proposed to describe such representative profile. Criteria measures are used to determine if a solution to a specific algorithm satisfies these postulates. Three integration algorithms are proposed and evaluated, including a heuristic algorithm. In future research, these algorithms will be used in a practical system.
Keywords
- hierarchical user profile
- user profile integration
- collaborative recommendation
- knowledge integration
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Maleszka, M., Mianowska, B., Nguyen, NT. (2012). A Heuristic Method for Collaborative Recommendation Using Hierarchical User Profiles. In: Nguyen, NT., Hoang, K., Jȩdrzejowicz, P. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. Technologies and Applications. ICCCI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7653. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34630-9_2
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