Author topic model-based collaborative filtering for personalized POI recommendations

• Main Authors: JIANG, Shuhui, QIAN, Xueming, SHEN, Jialie, FU, Yun, MEI, Tao
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Data mining; recommendation system; text mining; travel recommendation; Databases and Information Systems; Social Media; Tourism and Travel
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3198; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4199/viewcontent/AuthorTopicModelCollaborativePOI_2015.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

From social media has emerged continuous needs for automatic travel recommendations. Collaborative filtering (CF) is the most well-known approach. However, existing approaches generally suffer from various weaknesses. For example, sparsity can significantly degrade the performance of traditional CF....