CHESTNUT: Improve serendipity in movie recommendation by an Information Theory-based collaborative filtering approach

The term serendipity has been understood narrowly in the Recommender System. Applying a user-centered approach, user-friendly serendipitous recommender systems are expected to be developed based on a good understanding of serendipity. In this paper, we introduce CHESTNUT , a memory-based movie colla...

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Main Authors: Peng, Xiangjun, Zhang, Hongzhi, Zhou, Xiaosong, Wang, Shuolei, Sun, Xu, Wang, Qingfeng
Format: Monograph
Language:English
Published: Unpublished 2019
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60667/
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author Peng, Xiangjun
Zhang, Hongzhi
Zhou, Xiaosong
Wang, Shuolei
Sun, Xu
Wang, Qingfeng
author_facet Peng, Xiangjun
Zhang, Hongzhi
Zhou, Xiaosong
Wang, Shuolei
Sun, Xu
Wang, Qingfeng
author_sort Peng, Xiangjun
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description The term serendipity has been understood narrowly in the Recommender System. Applying a user-centered approach, user-friendly serendipitous recommender systems are expected to be developed based on a good understanding of serendipity. In this paper, we introduce CHESTNUT , a memory-based movie collaborative filtering system to improve serendipity performance. Relying on a proposed Information Theory-based algorithm and previous study, we demonstrate a method of successfully injecting insight, unexpectedness and usefulness, which are key metrics for a more comprehensive understanding of serendipity, into a practical serendipitous runtime system. With lightweight experiments, we have revealed a few runtime issues and further optimized the same. We have evaluated CHESTNUT in both practicability and effectiveness , and the results show that it is fast, scalable and improves serendip-ity performance significantly, compared with mainstream memory-based collaborative filtering. The source codes of CHESTNUT are online at https://github.com/unnc-idl-ucc/CHESTNUT/.
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spelling nottingham-606672020-05-21T07:01:19Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60667/ CHESTNUT: Improve serendipity in movie recommendation by an Information Theory-based collaborative filtering approach Peng, Xiangjun Zhang, Hongzhi Zhou, Xiaosong Wang, Shuolei Sun, Xu Wang, Qingfeng The term serendipity has been understood narrowly in the Recommender System. Applying a user-centered approach, user-friendly serendipitous recommender systems are expected to be developed based on a good understanding of serendipity. In this paper, we introduce CHESTNUT , a memory-based movie collaborative filtering system to improve serendipity performance. Relying on a proposed Information Theory-based algorithm and previous study, we demonstrate a method of successfully injecting insight, unexpectedness and usefulness, which are key metrics for a more comprehensive understanding of serendipity, into a practical serendipitous runtime system. With lightweight experiments, we have revealed a few runtime issues and further optimized the same. We have evaluated CHESTNUT in both practicability and effectiveness , and the results show that it is fast, scalable and improves serendip-ity performance significantly, compared with mainstream memory-based collaborative filtering. The source codes of CHESTNUT are online at https://github.com/unnc-idl-ucc/CHESTNUT/. Unpublished 2019-01-01 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60667/1/CHESTNUT%20Improve%20Serendipity%20in%20Movie%20Recommendation%20by%20an%20Information%20Theory-based%20Collaborative%20Filtering%20Approach.pdf Peng, Xiangjun, Zhang, Hongzhi, Zhou, Xiaosong, Wang, Shuolei, Sun, Xu and Wang, Qingfeng (2019) CHESTNUT: Improve serendipity in movie recommendation by an Information Theory-based collaborative filtering approach. Working Paper. Unpublished. (Unpublished) Serendipity; RecommederSystems; InformationTheory
spellingShingle Serendipity; RecommederSystems; InformationTheory
Peng, Xiangjun
Zhang, Hongzhi
Zhou, Xiaosong
Wang, Shuolei
Sun, Xu
Wang, Qingfeng
CHESTNUT: Improve serendipity in movie recommendation by an Information Theory-based collaborative filtering approach
title CHESTNUT: Improve serendipity in movie recommendation by an Information Theory-based collaborative filtering approach
title_full CHESTNUT: Improve serendipity in movie recommendation by an Information Theory-based collaborative filtering approach
title_fullStr CHESTNUT: Improve serendipity in movie recommendation by an Information Theory-based collaborative filtering approach
title_full_unstemmed CHESTNUT: Improve serendipity in movie recommendation by an Information Theory-based collaborative filtering approach
title_short CHESTNUT: Improve serendipity in movie recommendation by an Information Theory-based collaborative filtering approach
title_sort chestnut: improve serendipity in movie recommendation by an information theory-based collaborative filtering approach
topic Serendipity; RecommederSystems; InformationTheory
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60667/