User preference learning with multiple information fusion for restaurant recommendation

Yanjie Fu, Bin Liu, Yong Ge, Zijun Yao, Hui Xiong

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Abstract

If properly analyzed, the multi-aspect rating data could be a source of rich intelligence for providing personalized restaurant recommendations. Indeed, while recommender systems have been studied for various applications and many recommendation techniques have been developed for general or specific recommendation tasks, there are few studies for restaurant recommendation by addressing the unique challenges of the multiaspect restaurant reviews. As we know, traditional collaborative filtering methods are typically developed for single aspect ratings. However, multi-aspect ratings are often collected from the restaurant customers. These ratings can reflect multiple aspects of the service quality of the restaurant. Also, geographic factors play an important role in restaurant recommendation. To this end, in this paper, we develop a generative probabilistic model to exploit the multi-aspect ratings of restaurants for restaurant recommendation. Also, the geographic proximity is integrated into the probabilistic model to capture the geographic influence. Moreover, the profile information, which contains customer/restaurantindependent features and the shared features, is also integrated into the model. Finally, we conduct a comprehensive experimental study on a real-world data set. The experimental results clearly demonstrate the benefit of exploiting multi-aspect ratings and the improvement of the developed generative probabilistic model.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2014, SDM 2014
EditorsMohammed J. Zaki, Arindam Banerjee, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Pang Ning-Tan, Zoran Obradovic, Chandrika Kamath
PublisherSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications
Pages470-478
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781510811515
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event14th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2014 - Philadelphia, United States
Duration: Apr 24 2014Apr 26 2014

Publication series

NameSIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2014, SDM 2014
Volume1

Conference

Conference14th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhiladelphia
Period4/24/144/26/14

Keywords

  • Co-matrix factorization
  • Multi-information fusion
  • Restaurant recommendation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Software

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