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New and improved: modeling versions to improve app recommendation

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Kazunari Sugiyama,

Tat-Seng ChuaAuthors Info & Claims

SIGIR '14: Proceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval

Pages 647 - 656

https://doi.org/10.1145/2600428.2609560

Published: 03 July 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Existing recommender systems usually model items as static -- unchanging in attributes, description, and features. However, in domains such as mobile apps, a version update may provide substantial changes to an app as updates, reflected by an increment in its version number, may attract a consumer's interest for a previously unappealing version. Version descriptions constitute an important recommendation evidence source as well as a basis for understanding the rationale for a recommendation. We present a novel framework that incorporates features distilled from version descriptions into app recommendation. We use a semi-supervised topic model to construct a representation of an app's version as a set of latent topics from version metadata and textual descriptions. We then discriminate the topics based on genre information and weight them on a per-user basis to generate a version-sensitive ranked list of apps for a target user. Incorporating our version features with state-of-the-art individual and hybrid recommendation techniques significantly improves recommendation quality. An important advantage of our method is that it targets particular versions of apps, allowing previously disfavored apps to be recommended when user-relevant features are added.

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New and improved: modeling versions to improve app recommendation
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Retrieval tasks and goals
      1. Document filtering
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SIGIR '14: Proceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval

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DOI:10.1145/2600428

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