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Our paper investigates the use of discourse embedding techniques to develop a community recommendation system that focuses on mental health support groups on social media. Social media platforms provide a means for users to anonymously…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Hy Dang , Bang Nguyen , Noah Ziems , Meng Jiang

With the incredibly growing amount of multimedia data shared on the social media platforms, recommender systems have become an important necessity to ease users' burden on the information overload. In such a scenario, extensive amount of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Xianming Liu , Min-Hsuan Tsai , Thomas Huang

Collaborative filtering is used to recommend items to a user without requiring a knowledge of the item itself and tends to outperform other techniques. However, collaborative filtering suffers from the cold-start problem, which occurs when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Michael R. Smith , Tony Martinez , Michael Gashler

User-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most popular approaches to create recommender systems. CF, however, suffers from data sparsity and the cold-start problem since users often rate only a small fraction of available items.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Tomislav Duricic , Emanuel Lacic , Dominik Kowald , Elisabeth Lex

With the growth of online shopping for fashion products, accurate fashion recommendation has become a critical problem. Meanwhile, social networks provide an open and new data source for personalized fashion analysis. In this work, we study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Haitian Zheng , Kefei Wu , Jong-Hwi Park , Wei Zhu , Jiebo Luo

Recommender systems serves as an important technical asset in many modern companies. With the increasing demand for higher precision of the technology, more and more research and investment has been allocated to the field. One important…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Hao Wang

A standard approach to Collaborative Filtering (CF), i.e. prediction of user ratings on items, relies on Matrix Factorization techniques. Representations for both users and items are computed from the observed ratings and used for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Gabriella Contardo , Ludovic Denoyer , Thierry Artieres

Recommendations Systems have been identified to be one of the integral elements of driving sales in e-commerce sites. The utilization of opinion mining data extracted from trends has been attempted to improve the recommendations that can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Dinuka Ravijaya Piyadigama , Guhanathan Poravi

Recommender system is an applicable technique in most E-commerce commercial product technical designs. However, nearly all recommender system faces a challenge called the cold-start problem. The problem is so notorious that almost every…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hao Wang

Job recommendation gathers many challenges well-known in recommender systems. First, it suffers from the cold start problem, with the user (the candidate) and the item (the job) having a very limited lifespan. It makes the learning of good…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Eric Behar , Julien Romero , Amel Bouzeghoub , Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska

In this paper, we introduce a novel situation aware approach to improve a context based recommender system. To build situation aware user profiles, we rely on evidence issued from retrieval situations. A retrieval situation refers to the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Djallel Bouneffouf

Cold-start problems are long-standing challenges for practical recommendations. Most existing recommendation algorithms rely on extensive observed data and are brittle to recommendation scenarios with few interactions. This paper addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Zhengxiao Du , Xiaowei Wang , Hongxia Yang , Jingren Zhou , Jie Tang

Recommender systems have been widely applied to assist user's decision making by providing a list of personalized item recommendations. Context-aware recommender systems (CARS) additionally take context information into considering in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Yong Zheng

How can we recommend cold-start bundles to users? The cold-start problem in bundle recommendation is crucial because new bundles are continuously created on the Web for various marketing purposes. Despite its importance, existing methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hyunsik Jeon , Jong-eun Lee , Jeongin Yun , U Kang

Online fashion sales present a challenging use case for personalized recommendation: Stores offer a huge variety of items in multiple sizes. Small stocks, high return rates, seasonality, and changing trends cause continuous turnover of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Sebastian Heinz , Christian Bracher , Roland Vollgraf

Context-aware recommendation systems improve upon classical recommender systems by including, in the modelling, a user's behaviour. Research into context-aware recommendation systems has previously only considered the sequential ordering of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Mufhumudzi Muthivhi , Terence L. van Zyl , Hairong Wang

In the era of rapid development of social media, social recommendation systems as hybrid recommendation systems have been widely applied. Existing methods capture interest similarity between users to filter out interest-irrelevant relations…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yuqin Lan , Weihao Shen , Yuanze Hu , Qingchen Yu , Zhaoxin Fan , Faguo Wu , Laurence T. Yang

The presence of political misinformation and ideological echo chambers on social media platforms is concerning given the important role that these sites play in the public's exposure to news and current events. Algorithmic systems employed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Kayla Duskin , Joseph S. Schafer , Jevin D. West , Emma S. Spiro

This replication study modifies ALMM, the Adaptive Linear Mapping Model constructed for the next song recommendation, to the news recommendation problem on the MIND dataset. The original version of ALMM computes latent representations for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Omar Elgohary , Nathan Jorgenson , Trenton Marple

In this work, we present an approach for mining user preferences and recommendation based on reviews. There have been various studies worked on recommendation problem. However, most of the studies beyond one aspect user generated- content…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Xuan-Son Vu , Seong-Bae Park