Content recommendation through semantic annotation of user reviews and linked data

Iacopo Vagliano, Diego Monti, Ansgar Scherp, Maurizio Morisio

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Abstract

Nowadays, most recommender systems exploit user-provided ratings to infer their preferences. However, the growing popularity of social and e-commerce websites has encouraged users to also share comments and opinions through textual reviews. In this paper, we introduce a new recommendation approach which exploits the semantic annotation of user reviews to extract useful and non-trivial information about the items to recommend. It also relies on the knowledge freely available in the Web of Data, notably in DBpedia and Wikidata, to discover other resources connected with the annotated entities. We evaluated our approach in three domains, using both DBpedia and Wikidata. The results showed that our solution provides a better ranking than another recommendation method based on theWeb of Data, while it improves in novelty with respect to traditional techniques based on ratings.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Knowledge Capture Conference, K-CAP 2017
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)9781450355537
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Dec 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2017 - Austin, United States
Duration: 4 Dec 20176 Dec 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Knowledge Capture Conference, K-CAP 2017

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period4/12/20176/12/2017

Keywords

  • DBpedia
  • Linked Data
  • Recommender Systems
  • Semantic Annotation
  • Semantic Web
  • User Reviews
  • Web of Data
  • Wikidata

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