User Modeling

Introduction to special section on CAMRa2010: Movie recommendation in context
The challenge and workshop on Context-Aware Movie Recommendation (CAMRa2010) were conducted jointly in 2010 with the Recommender …
Alan Said, S. Berkovsky, E.W. De Luca
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Analyzing weighting schemes in collaborative filtering: Cold start, post cold type: publication profile: false start and power users
Collaborative filtering recommender systems provide their users with relevant items based on information from other similar users. …
Alan Said, B.J. Jain, S. Albayrak
Jan 1, 2012
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Inferring Contextual User Profiles - Improving Recommender Performance
In this paper we present the concept of inferred contextual user profiles (CUPs) which extends the traditional user profile definition …
Alan Said, Ernesto W. De Luca, Sahin Albayrak
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Exploiting hierarchical tags for context-awareness
Context-awareness for information retrieval is a challenging problem as information about the user’s current situation is rarely …
Alan Said, Jérôme Kunegis, Ernesto W. De Luca, Sahin Albayrak
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Putting things in context
The Challenge on Context-Aware Movie Recommendation (CAMRa) was conducted as part of a join event on Context-Awareness in Recommender …
Alan Said, Shlomo Berkovsky, Ernesto W. De Luca
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