Improving personalized recommendations using community membership information

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Highlights:

• This study explores community membership as a useful information source.

• The first part examines the presence of shared interests among community co-members.

• The second part examines recommendations based on users’ community membership.

• Recommendations based on community membership are efficient and complete.

• For cold-start users, recommendations using community membership are highly valuable.

摘要

•This study explores community membership as a useful information source.•The first part examines the presence of shared interests among community co-members.•The second part examines recommendations based on users’ community membership.•Recommendations based on community membership are efficient and complete.•For cold-start users, recommendations using community membership are highly valuable.

论文关键词:Social network-based recommendations,Personalized recommendations,Online community,Online group,CiteULike

论文评审过程:Received 27 October 2016, Revised 20 May 2017, Accepted 28 May 2017, Available online 5 June 2017, Version of Record 5 June 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2017.05.005