Addressing the Cold Start with Positive-Only Feedback Through Semantic-Based Recommendations

Recommender systems aim to provide users with accurate item suggestions in a personalized fashion, but struggle in the case of cold start users, for whom there is a scarcity of preference data. User preferences can be either explicitly stated by the users — often by means of ratings —, or implicitly acquired by a system — for instance by mining text reviews, search queries, and purchase records. Recommendation methods have been mostly designed to deal with numerical ratings. However, real scenarios with user preferences expressed in the form of binary and unary (positive-only) feedback, e.g. the thumbs up/down in YouTube, and the likes in Facebook, are increasingly popular, and make the user cold start problem even more challenging. To address the cold start with positive-only feedback situations, we propose to exploit data additional to user preferences by means of specialized hybrid recommendation methods. In particular, we investigate a number of graph-based and matrix factorization recommendation mode...

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